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Lot 209
VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA Geschichte der Eroberung von Florida...
Zelle, Frankfurt and Leipzig: George Conrad Gsellius, 1753. First edition in German (translated from the French by Heinrich Ludewig Meier). Contemporary calf, the spine richly tooled in gilt. 7 1/4 x 4 inches (18 x 10 cm); [xiii] 9-51; [1]-456 pp. The covers reattached, light wear to extremities, toned, with the bookplate of John Carter Brown marked duplicate to the front pastedown and a stamp to A2.
"The first German edition of Garcilaso de la Vega's great work on De Soto and the aborigines of Florida, translated by Heinrich Ludewig Meier. The first edition appeared in two issues in Lisbon in 1605. The author, the extraordinary half-Incan historian, obtained a great portion of the material contained in this work directly from a member of De Soto's ill-fated expedition, as well as from two manuscripts of undoubted authority written by two other members of the expedition. Although for a period of the 19th century, Garcilaso de la Vega's three great works on the conquest of Peru and Florida were subject to skepticism on the part of some historians, time and further scholarship have vindicated their authenticity, and this work is now regarded as one of the primary sources for the events with which it deals." - Sabin 98746; Palau 354843
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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