Title: Historia de las Indias de Nueva-Espana y islas de Tierra
Firme.Author: Diego DuranPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04455502CollectionID:
CTRG03-B767PublicationDate: 18800101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "The entire edition of the first volume published in
1867] with the exception of a small number of copies, distributed
privately by the author, as well as the atlas, has been confiscated
by the Mexian government."--Cf. Sabin. "Apendice. Explicacion del
codice geroglifico de mr. Aubin, por Alfredo Chavero" (172 p. at
end of vol. 2). The atlas contains the reproductions of the
illustrations to the 3 parts of the manuscript and facsimile of the
"Codice geroglifico de mr. Aubin" (known as the "Codex
Ixtlilxochitl," now in the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris, Mss.
Mex. 65-71) Vol. 2 printed by Ignacio Escalante. Facsims. numbered:
tratado 1, 1-32; tratado 2, 1-11; tratado 3, 1-6; apendice,
1-16.Collation: 2 v.; 31 cm. + atlas ( 66] leaves of facsims. (63
col.); 32 cm.)
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