Historia natvral y moral de las Indias,
en qve se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas: y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios.
Compuesta por el padre Joseph de Acosta ...

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Main Author

Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.

Language(s)

Spanish

Published

Seuilla, Impr. en casa de Iuan de Leon, 1590.

Subjects

Natural history > Natural history / Latin America.
Indians of South America > Indians of South America / Peru.
Indians of Mexico.
Latin America.
America > America / Early accounts to 1600.

Note

References: Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), no. 1980.
Errors in pagination: p. 46-47 misnumbered 47-46; p. 89 misnumbered 96.
Printer's device on verso of p. 535 and on p. [36].
Monogram of the Society on t.-p.
Books 1-2 appeared originally in Latin under title De natura Novi Orbis libri duo, 1588.
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Physical Description

535 pages, 36 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

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