[1042] [Such is Quintana’s statement; but Helps failed to verify it, and says he could only fix the dates 1552, 1560, 1561 as those of any part of the writing. Life of Las Casas, p. 175.—Ed.]
[1043] [I trace no copy earlier than one Rich had made. Prescott had one, which was probably burned in Boston (1872). Helps used another. There are other copies in the Library of Congress, in the Lenox Library, and in H. H. Bancroft’s Collection.—Ed.]
[1044] [Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. 119, says the purpose of the Academy at one time was to annotate the manuscript, so as to show Las Casas in a new light, using contemporary writers.—Ed.]
[1045] [It is worth from $30 to $40. It is called Historia de las Indias, ahora por primera vez dada á luz por el Marqués de la Fuensanta del Valle y José Sancho Rayon. It contains, beginning in vol. v. at p. 237, the Apologética historia which Las Casas had written to defend the Indians against aspersions upon their lives and character. This latter work was not included in another edition of the Historia printed at Mexico in two volumes in 1877-1878. Cf. Vigel, Biblioteca Mexicana. Parts of the Apologética are given in Kingsborough’s Mexico, vol. viii. Cf. on the Historia, Irving’s Columbus, App.; Helps’s Spanish Conquest (Am. ed.), i. 23, and Life of Las Casas, p. 175; Ticknor, Spanish Literature, ii. 39; Humboldt’s Cosmos (Eng. tr.), ii. 679; H. H. Bancroft, Central America, i. 309; Prescott’s Mexico, i. 378; Quintana’s Vidas, iii. 507.—Ed.]
[1046] [Llorente’s version is not always strictly faithful, being in parts condensed and paraphrastic. Cf. Field, no. 889; Ticknor, Spanish Literature, ii. 38, and Catalogue, p. 62; Sabin, nos. 14, 50; H. H. Bancroft, Central America, i. 309. This edition, besides a life of Las Casas, contains a necrology of the Conquerors, and other annotations by the editor.—Ed.]
[1047] [This earliest version is a tract of 70 leaves, printed probably at Brussels, and called Seer cort Verhael vande destructie van d’Indien. Cf. Sabin, no. 23; Carter-Brown, i. 320; Stevens, Bibl. Hist., no. 1,097. The whole series is reviewed in Tiele’s Mémoire bibliographique (who gives twenty-one editions) and in Sabin’s Works of Las Casas (taken from his Dictionary); and many of them are noted in the Carter-Brown Catalogue and in Muller’s Books on America, 1872 and 1877. This 1578 edition was reissued in 1579 with a new title, Spieghel der Spaenscher Tirannije, which in some form continued to be the title of subsequent editions, which were issued in 1596, 1607, 1609, 1610, 1612 (two), 1620 (two), 1621, 1627 (?), 1634, 1638, 1663, 1664, etc. Several of these editions give De Bry’s engravings, sometimes in reverse. A popular chap-book, printed about 1730, is made up from Las Casas and other sources.—Ed.]
[1048] [This included the first, second, and sixth of the tracts of 1552. In 1582 there was a new edition of the Tyrannies, etc., printed at Paris; but some copies seem to have had a changed title, Histoire admirable des horribles insolences, etc. It was again reissued with the original title at Rouen in 1630. Cf. Field, 873, 874; Sabin, nos. 41, 42, 43, 45; Rich (1832); Stevens, Bibl. Hist., no. 1,098; Leclerc, nos. 334, 2,558; Carter-Brown, i. 329, 345, 347; O’Callaghan, no. 1,336; a London catalogue (A. R. Smith, 1874) notes an edition of the Histoire admirable des horribles Insolences, Cruautez et tyrraines exercées par les Espagnols, etc., Lyons, 1594.—Ed.]
[1049] [It is a tract of sixty-four leaves in Gothic letter, and is very rare, prices being quoted at £20 and more. Cf. Sabin, no. 61; Carter-Brown, i. 351; Stevens, Bibl. Geog., 596, Huth Catalogue, i. 271. Cf. William Lightfoote’s Complaints of England, London, 1587, for English opinion at this time on the Spanish excesses (Sabin, vol. x. no. 41,050), and the Foreign Quarterly Review (1841), ii. 102.—Ed.]
[1050] [Field, p. 877; Carter-Brown, ii. 804; Sabin, no. 60. The first tract is translated in Purchas’s Pilgrimes, iv. 1,569.—Ed.]
[1051] [Some copies read, Account of the First Voyages, etc. Cf. Field, no. 880; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,556; Sabin, no. 63; Stevens, Bibl. Geog., no. 603; and Prince Library Catalogue, p. 34. Another English edition, London, 1689, is called Popery truly display’d in its Bloody Colours. Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,374; Sabin, no. 62. Another London book of 1740, Old England for Ever, is often called a Las Casas, but it is not his. Field, no. 888.—Ed.]