Acosta, Jose de

估價

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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描述

The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of heaven, of the elements, mettalls, plants and beasts which are proper to that country: together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governements, and warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E.G. London: by Val: Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley, 1604
paper, ink, leather

4to (185 x 135 mm). Minor staining, last leaf repaired, lacks final blank, a few headlines shaved, title and last leaves with contemporary marginalia. Olive calf gilt, by Leighton.

來源

Seventeenth-century signatures of G. Chudleigh and Mary Chudleigh — John Fleming (Christie's New York, 18 November, 1988, lot 1)

出版

STC 94; Sabin 131; Church 328; Palau 1996

拍品資料及來源

First English edition, the Fleming copy, of a translation attributed to Edward Grimeston, of the Spanish Jesuit Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias (originally published as De natura novi orbis in 1588). The work revealed the extent of the huge wealth that Spain was drawing from the New World.