Historical tracts--Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1474-1566).

Hickes, George (1642-1715). Ravillac redivivus, being a narrative of the late tryal of Mr. James Mitchel a conventicle-preacher, who was executed the 18th of January last, for an attempt which he made on the sacred person of the Archbishop of St Andrews. To which is annexed, an account of the tryal of that most wicked Pharisee Major Thomas Weir, who was executed for adultery, incest and bestiality. London: Henry Hills, 1678, 78 (i.e. 58)pp., [Wing H1860], lacking final blank
Ferguson, Robert (d. 1714). An enquiry into, and detection of the barbarous murther of the late Earl of Essex, or, a vindication of that noble person, from the guilt and infamy of having destroyed himself. London, 1689, [4], 75, [1]pp., [Wing F739], title-page stained, some margins nibbled
The journal of the proceedings of the Lds commissioners of both nations, in the treaty of union, which began on the 16th of April 1706. [London]: for Andrew Bell, [1706], 79, [1]pp.



4 works in one volume, 4to (187 x 139mm.), binding: eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, lettering-piece

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Den spiegel der Spaensche tierannije geschiet in West-Indien is a Dutch translation (that had first appeared in 1610) of Brevisima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias (1552), a work described by Church as the "most gruesome" of its age. It contains graphic accounts of the cruelty of the Spaniards towards the Indians. Bartolomé de las Casas was the most fervent and influential advocate of Indian rights during his time. He lived during a period in which Spanish conquistadors viewed the Indians as natural slaves and barbarians. A copy of the 1656 English translation by John Phillips was Macclesfield Travel, lot 3191.