CASAS, BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS Istoria o brevissima relatione della distruttione dell' Indie occidentali...
Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1630. The second Italian edition of Las Casas. Later Italian laced-case paper binding (legatura alla rustica). 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm); xii, 150, [2] pp., this last leaf publisher's ads; the title with the fine printer's device. Scattered pale staining throughout.

A rare early Italian edition of Las Casas's account of the various iniquities of the Spanish against the native populations of the New World, first published in 1552 as the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Sabin 11243.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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