Historia natural y moral de las Indias en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas : y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios compuesta por el padre Ioseph de Acosta religioso de la Compañia de Iesus
Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio 1828-1897 Search this
Physical description:
535, [37] pages 21 cm (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Obras anteriores a 1800
Early accounts to 1600
Primeros relatos hasta 1600
Early works
Place:
Peru
Latin America
América Latina
Perú
America
América
Date:
1590
Notes:
"Dirigida a la serenissima infanta Doña Isabella Clara Eugenia de Austria"
Books 1-2 appeared originally in Latin under title De natura Novi Orbis libri duo, 1588-1589
First Spanish-language edition of this important source on the Indians of Mexico and Peru and on the natural history of Latin America. Acosta, a Jesuit priest and linguist serving in Mexico and Peru from 1571 to 1588, founded a printing press in Peru. In the present work he puts forth ideas on ethnology, compares Aztec and Inca civilizations and history, and provides detailed navigational advice and discussions of New World plants, minerals, and other commodities
General index at end, followed by "Tabla de algunos lugares de la Sagrada Escriptura, cuya declaracion se toca de passo en el discurso desta Historia," with biblical chapter titles in Latin
In 7 "books" (libros)
Woodcut title vignette (Jesuit trigram), head- and tail-pieces, initials
SCNHRB copy has handwritten notes in ink on last leaves, cropped and washed
SCNHRB copy rebound in 1973 (conservator's treatment note tipped-in at end), limp vellum binding with pigskin ties, title in ms. on spine; housed in a linen-covered drop-back box