RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DE'COUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES.AVEC LA RELATION CURIEUSE DES VOYAGES DU SIEUR DE MONTAUBAN, CAPITAINE DES FILBUSTIERS, EN GUINEE L'AN 1695.

Exploration; West Indides; Maritime; New World Discovery; frontispiece; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; x, 354, [xii], 364-98, 401-402, 399-400 pages; RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DE'COUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES. AVEC LA RELATION CURIEUSE DES VOYAGES DU SIEUR DE MONTAUBAN, CAPITAINE DES FILBUSTIERS, EN GUINEE L'AN 1695. Engraved frontispiece. Title printed in black and red. Recently rebound in full leather with pagination unchanged by Vernon Wiering, red leather lettering label to spine. Condition: first and final leaves damp stained and soiled, marginal dampstaining throughout. This is a new edition of the translation of four tracts by Las Casas by Abbe de Bellegarde that was originally published in paris in 1697 (see Sabin 11273). Sabin 11274. European Americana 698/33. Each section has a title page. Colophon p. [358] and 402 erroneously dated MDXCVIII. 308 misnumbered 338. Pages 399/400 bound after 401/402 at an earlier date. With catalogue. Relation of the Voyages and Discoveries made by the Spaniards in the West Indies, written by Don B. De Las Casas Bishop of Chiapas. With the Relatain of the Sieur Montauban, Captain of Buccaneers in Guinea, 1695. Mr. Rich says the translation was made by the Abbe de Bellegarde, whose politeness (or perhaps fear of the Spanish influence at the French court) , induced him to soften some of the cruel parts, lest they should give pain to delicate persons. Contents generally VG and unmarked.…