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Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar oceano

by: Fernndez de Oviedo y Valds, Gonzalo, 1478-1557; Real Academia de la Historia (Spain); Amador de los Rios, Jos, 1818-1878

Publication date: 1851-55

Topics: Discoveries in geography, Indians, Natural history -- West Indies, Natural history -- Central America, Shipwrecks, America -- Early accounts to 1600, America -- Discovery and exploration Spanish, Spain -- Colonies America

Publisher: Madrid, Impr. de la Real academia de la historia

Collection: biodiversity; NY_Botanical_Garden; americana

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: Spanish

Volume: 3

3 pts. in 4 v. 32 cm

The illustrations and the four maps are reproduced from the designs in the original manuscript

"Obras de Oviedo y juicio crtico de las mismas. Sus principales caractres como historiador. Catlogo cronolgico de sus escritos": v. 1, p. lxxxi-cvii

"Voces americanas empleadas por Oviedo," followed by a short bibliography of early grammars and vocabularies of Indian languages: v. 4, p. [593]-[608]

"Libro XII de la IIIa parte ... que tracta de los infortunios naufragios": v. 4, p. [462]-592