Iosephi Acosta, Societatis Iesu, De Natura Novi Orbis Libri Duo. Et de Promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros, sive, De procuranda Indorum salute, Libri Sex.
Cologne: Arnold Mylius, 1596. Woodcut title vignette (with IHS initials); typeset marginalia throughout. [16], 581, [3 blank] pages. Short thick 8vo, contemporary calf; attractive inlaid covers with blind and gilt-stamped decorations (recent labels on spine). Coloniae Agrippinae: In officina Birkcmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, 1596. A near fine copy of this uncommon book "The first two books of this work are nearly the same books of 'Historia natural y moral de las Indias' [originally published in Salamanca, 1588]; the other six..... More