Primera[-tercera] parte de los veinte i un libros rituales i monarchia indiana, con el origen y guerras, de los indios ocidentales, de sus poblaccones, descubrimiento, conquista, conuersion, y otras cosas marauillosas de la mesma tierra

Author: Juan de Torquemada (c1562-1624)Year: 1723 (1725)Publisher: Nicolás Rodríguez FrancoPlace: MadridDescription: 3 volumes. Volume I: engraved title page, 1t leaves+768+[36 index] pages with folding map. Volume II: Engraved title page+623+[28 index] pages. Volume III: engraved title page+5 leaves+4+63+[21 index] pages. Small folio (12" x 8 1/4") bound in modern quarter white morocco five raised spine bands over white buckram. (European Americana 725/195; Hill 1707; Medina, BHA 2491; Palau 335033; Sabin 96212; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 18a) Second edition. The first edition was printed by Mathias Clavijo in Seville in 1615. As Nicolás Rodríguez Franco, the printer of the second edition, informed his readers in his Proemio, few exemplars of the first edition survive because the greater part of the print-run was lost in a shipwreck, and only three copies were known to him. Eight copies of the first edition exist in various libraries in North America and Europe, two of which lack the o