The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd, the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities. Collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera, Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. ... Illustrated with cutts and maps

All titles

• The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd, the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities. Collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera, Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. ... Illustrated with cutts and maps
• Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. English. Abridgments

People / Organizations

• Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (Author)
• Jeremiah Batley ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed [in part by Samuel Palmer] for Jer. Batley, at the Dove in Pater-noster-row, M.DCC.XXV-M.DCC.XXVI. [1725-1726]

Publication year

1725-1726

ESTC No.

N1037

Grub Street ID

378

Description

6v., plates : maps, ports. ; 8°.

Note

"An abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's 'Historia general do los hechos de los castellanos,' divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original." (NUC)

Titlepages in red and black

Palmer printed in at least v. 1; see Hazel Wilkinson, "Benjamin Franklin's London printing 1725-26", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 139-180, Appendix A, no. 17

Vols. 1,2 dated 1725; vols. 3-6 dated 1726

The preface in volume 1 is in six pages, and the headpiece to the preface and to page 1 represents a hill with a flag on top, with a sun in the background; Sig. B is under the 'a' of 'Seneca'.