first edition Hardcover
1957 · Madrid
by DE LAS CASAS, Bartolomé
Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1957. Hardcover. Edited by Juan Pérez de Tudelo and Emilio López Oto, with critical essays by Tudelo. Complete 5-volume set. Small 4to. Blue buckram with gilt spine lettering. clxxxviii, 502pp; 617pp; xxxii, 470pp; 472pp; xxiii, 557pp. Frontispieces. Very good overall. Binding lightly rubbed but clean and strong; endpapers a bit age toned, else texts all tight and nice; small mended tear to single leaf in Volume II. First of this modern edition, entirely in Spanish in two-column format, of the '"Obras Escogidas" (selected works) of the Spanish colonialist in Central and South America (1484-1566) turned Dominican friar, social (truncated)