- 3249
Pizarro y Orellano, Fernando (1498-c. 1560).
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Varones ilustres del nuevo mundo. Descubridores, conquistadores y pacificadores del opulento, dilatado, y poderoso imperio de las Indias Occidentales. Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1639
folio (280 x 200mm.), [36], 427, [1 (blank)]; 72, [32]pp., some typographical ornaments, illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding: eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, some light browning, short tear in one leaf, printed notes on Nn1 verso & a2 recto trimmed at foot, a few small holes (paper flaws) in text of final leaf with slight loss
Literature
Palau 227687; Sabin 63189
Catalogue Note
"Obra estimada" (Palau). It includes the lives of Christopher Colombus, Hernan Cortes, Francisco, Juan, Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro, Diego Garcia de Paredes and others. The author, who describes himself as the great grandson of Francisco Pizarro, mentions in his preface a second volume, which was never published but exists in manuscript.