Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AMERICA: LAS CASAS (BARTOLOME DE)—continued. ni en vassallaje, ni de otra manera alguna. Si su magestad como desea quiere librarlos de la tyrania y perdicion que paceden como de la boca de los dragones: y que totalmente no los consuman y maten y que de vazio todo aquel orbe de sus tan infinitos naturales habitores como estava y los vimos poblado. Sm 4to, title within woodcut border, _ Gothic letter, contemporary blind stamped calf. £25 0 0 . Jacome Cromberger: Seville 1552 «x FIRST EDITION. Sabin 11229, Medina 146, Quétif and Echard, II., p 194, ath 8, Field 862, Escudero y Perosso 542 (1). Stevens, Hist. Nuggets hu ta . Field gives the following translation of the title: ‘‘ Among the remedies which Friar Don B. de L. C., . . has presented by order of our Lord, the Emperor King, at the Councils of prelates, learned and great men, ordered to be held at Valladolid in the year 1542 for the reformation of the Indies. The following is the eighth in order, in which are given twenty reasons, which prove that the Indians ought not to be given to the Spaniards in com- manderies, in feudal bondage, or in vassalage, or in any other manner; if His Majesty should desire to free them from the tyranny and perdition which they are suffering, as from the jaws of dragons, and that they may not wholly con- sume and destroy them, and depopulate that world, which was, as we saw, filled with an infinite number of native inhabitants.”’ Bartolomé de las Casas, a benevolent Spanish missionary, noted for zeal in behalf of the oppressed Indians, was born at Seville. In 1493 he accom- panied Columbus in his second voyage to America. Some years later, having become a Dominican friar, he went to Hispaniola as a missionary, preaching the gospel to the natives, and humanity to the Spanish conquerors who had enslaved them. His efforts to ameliorate the condition of this class having been opposed and frustrated, he visited the Court of Spain in 1516, and afterwards repeatedly crossed the ocean to plead their cause. He also ad- dressed to Charles V several letters or treatises on the subject. He was appointed Bishop of Chiapa some years before 1550. In 1551 he returned to Spain. 3 AMERICA. LAS CASAS (B. de) ENTRE LOS REMEDIOS. [ Another copy], last two leaves defective and repaired, mcdern blind stamped brown morocco. £10 0 0 1552 4 AMERICA. LAS CASAS (8B. de) NARRATIO RE- GIONUM INDICARUM per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima. . . . Latine excusa. Sm. gto, title-page (cut round and mounted) with pictorial border, representing the natives, outrages, etc., humerous copper-engravings of hangings, burnings, and other atrocities, old vellum. £8 0 0 Joannes Saurius for Theodorus de Bry: Frankfurt 1598 - Tas Casas’s zeal in the cause of humanity irritated the oppres- sors, and Sepulveda, canon of Salamanca, and historiographer to Charles V., wrote a book entitled: Democrates Secundus, sew de justis belli causis; an liceat bello Indos prosequi, auferendo ab eis dominia possessionesque et bona temporalia, et occidendo eos, si resistentiam opposuerint, ut sic spoliati et subjecti; facilius per praedicatores suadeatur vis fides. This infamous book, of which the title is a sufficient indication of the contents, was vetoed by the Emperor, but, printed at Rome. The present volume was written as an answer to it. Biog. Univ, VII., pp. 255-256.