Title page from first edition of Descripcion de las Indias, 1601 Stock Image

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Description

Title page from first edition of Descripcion de las Indias, 1601. By Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas with iconographic engravings of indigenous people. It includes the only known portrait of the author

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Keywords

• Title page
• first edition
• Descripcion de las Indias
• 1601
• Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
• iconographic engravings
• indigenous people
• portrait
• author
• 17th-century
• document
• civilization
• historiography
• Americas
• maps
• foldout pages
• Decadas
• geographical matters
• lands
• chronicles
• nautical treatises
• Martin Fernandez de Enciso
• Alonso de Chaves
• Alonso de Santa Cruz
• and Juan Lopez de Velasco
• extensive cartography
• Far East
• translated into English by Captain John Stevens