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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

Catalog Data

Author:
Acosta, José de 1540-1600  Search this
Former owner:
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
Signatures: pi² A⁴ B-2N⁸ 2O⁴(-2O4)
Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 324
European Americana 590-591
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), volume 1, page 56, number 1980
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, volume 1, page 18, number 121
Library of Congress. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson, volume 4, number 4096
SCNHRB copy (39088016458259) lacking preliminary leaf?
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
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Historia natural  Search this
Indios de América del Sur  Search this
Indios de México  Search this
Indians of Mexico  Search this
Indians of South America  Search this
Call number:
E141 .A284 1590
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_988844