[1052] [Sabin, no. 51; Carter-Brown, i. 510; Stevens, Hist. Coll., i. 319. It has no place. Muller calls a Warhafftiger Bericht of 1599, with no place, the earliest German edition, with De Bry’s, engravings,—which were also in the Oppenheim edition of 1613, Warhafftiger und gründlicher Bericht, etc. Cf. Sabin, no. 54; Carter-Brown, ii. 146. A similar title belongs to a Frankfort edition of 1597 (based on the Antwerp French edition of 1579), which is noted in Sabin, no. 52, and in Bib. Grenvilliana, ii. 828, and was accompanied by a volume of plates (Sabin, no,. 53).
There seem to be two varieties of the German edition of 1665, Umbständige warhafftige Beschreibung der Indianischen Ländern. Cf. Carter-Brown, ii. 957; Sabin, no. 55; Field, no. 882. Sabin (no. 56) also notes a 1790 and other editions.—Ed.]
[1053] [It followed the French edition of 1579, and was reissued at Oppenheim in 1614. Cf. Field, p. 871; Carter-Brown, i. 453, 524; ii. 164; Sabin, nos. 57, 58.
The Heidelberg edition of 1664, Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatarum descriptio, omits the sixteen pages of preliminary matter of the early editions; and the plates, judging from the Harvard College and other copies, show wear. Sabin, no. 59; Carter-Brown, ii. 944.—Ed.]
[1054] [As in the Istoria ò brevissima relatione, Venice, 1626, 1630, and 1643, a version of the first tract of 1552, made by Castellani. It was later included in Marmocchi’s Raccolta di viaggi. Cf. Sabin, nos. 16, 17, 18; Carter-Brown, ii. 311, 360, 514; Leclerc, no. 331; Field, no. 885; Stevens, Hist. Coll., i. 315; Bibl. Hist., no. 1,100. The sixth tract was translated as Il supplice schiavo Indiano, and published at Venice in 1635, 1636, and 1657. Cf. Carter-Brown, ii. 434, 816; Field, no. 886; Sabin, nos. 20, 21. It was reissued in 1640 as La libertà pretesa. Sabin, no. 19; Field, no. 887; Carter-Brown, ii. 473. The eighth and ninth tracts appeared as Conquista dell’Indie occidentali, Venice, 1645. Cf. Field, no. 884; Sabin, no. 22; Carter-Brown, ii. 566.—Ed.]
[1055] In Harvard College Library, with also the Ordenanzas reales del Conseio de las Indias, of the same date.
[1056] There are convenient explanations and references respecting the functions of the Casa de la Contratacion, the Council of the Indies, the Process of the Audiencia, and the duties of an Alcalde, in Bancroft’s Central America, vol. i. pp. 270, 280, 282, 297, 330.
[1057] See chap. iii. p. 203, ante.
[1058] At Medellin, in Estremadura, in 1485.
[1059] They are given in Pacheco’s Coleccion, xii. 225, Prescott’s Mexico, app. i., and elsewhere. Cf. H. H. Bancroft, Mexico, i. 55.