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ALDRETE, Bernardo

Varias antiguedades de España, Africa y otras provincias

Amberes
Iuan Hafrey (Gerard Wolschaeten & Henric Aertsens)
1614

€400 - €500

4to, [xvi]+640+[72] pp, engraved allegorical title (hole repaired), text illustrations including a plate of medals and a full-page regional map. Modern half cloth binding

"Ref. Palau 6391 ; Peeters-Fontainas 30. Only edition of this work on the philology and linguistics of the people of Spain, the Near East, and North Africa, containing many chapters of ethnographic importance. In his section on the ""Islas Hesperides"" the author credits a Spaniard, Sanchez de Huelva, with having told Columbus of his own prior visit to the New World and objects to the use of the term ""America"" for the region (p.566)"

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