CASAS, Bartolomé de Las (1474-1566). Tratado Comprobatorio del Imperio Soberano y Principado Universal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las Indias . Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1553.
CASAS, Bartolomé de Las (1474-1566). Tratado Comprobatorio del Imperio Soberano y Principado Universal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las Indias . Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1553. 8 o (202 x 136 mm). Title printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, historiated woodcut initials. Gothic type. (Some occasional pale spotting and marginal dampstaining at the beginning.) 20th-century half calf, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. "The purpose of this tract is 'to prove the sovereign empire and universal dominion by which the kings of Castile and Leon hold the West Indies'" (Church). This is the longest of Las Casas' essays, and was considered by the great collector Salva "to be the rarest of all those by Las Casas" (Palau). Bartolomé de Las Casas was only nineteen when he accompanied Columbus on his first voyage and, as Field notes, "of all the names, associated with the discovery and conquest of America, that of the author Don Bartholomew de Las Casas, is second in eminence only to that of Columbus." He returned from the voyage to join the Dominican order, and conceived to establish the first mission in the Western Hemisphere. He became the first priest ordained in the New World, and was the first to celebrate a new mass there. His revolutionary goal of attaining not only conversion but justice for the Indians influenced centuries of legal, social and religious history in the New and Old Worlds. Given the enormity of his popularity, the original tracts were read heavily, greatly reducing the number of surviving copies. According to American Book Prices Current , only three copies of the Tratado Comprobatorio have sold in at least the last thirty years. Alden & Landis 553/19; Church 96; Field 869; Harrisse, Notes on Columbus , p.23, #8; JCB (3) I.i: 174; Medina 156; Palau 46947; Sabin 11231.
CASAS, Bartolomé de Las (1474-1566). Tratado Comprobatorio del Imperio Soberano y Principado Universal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las Indias . Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1553.
CASAS, Bartolomé de Las (1474-1566). Tratado Comprobatorio del Imperio Soberano y Principado Universal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las Indias . Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1553. 8 o (202 x 136 mm). Title printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, historiated woodcut initials. Gothic type. (Some occasional pale spotting and marginal dampstaining at the beginning.) 20th-century half calf, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. "The purpose of this tract is 'to prove the sovereign empire and universal dominion by which the kings of Castile and Leon hold the West Indies'" (Church). This is the longest of Las Casas' essays, and was considered by the great collector Salva "to be the rarest of all those by Las Casas" (Palau). Bartolomé de Las Casas was only nineteen when he accompanied Columbus on his first voyage and, as Field notes, "of all the names, associated with the discovery and conquest of America, that of the author Don Bartholomew de Las Casas, is second in eminence only to that of Columbus." He returned from the voyage to join the Dominican order, and conceived to establish the first mission in the Western Hemisphere. He became the first priest ordained in the New World, and was the first to celebrate a new mass there. His revolutionary goal of attaining not only conversion but justice for the Indians influenced centuries of legal, social and religious history in the New and Old Worlds. Given the enormity of his popularity, the original tracts were read heavily, greatly reducing the number of surviving copies. According to American Book Prices Current , only three copies of the Tratado Comprobatorio have sold in at least the last thirty years. Alden & Landis 553/19; Church 96; Field 869; Harrisse, Notes on Columbus , p.23, #8; JCB (3) I.i: 174; Medina 156; Palau 46947; Sabin 11231.
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