RARE WORK ON CONQUISTADOR DOM HENRIQUE DE CASTRO

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Dom Henrique de Castro, ou la conqueste des Indes. 2 parts.

Paris, Gillaume de Luyne, 1684.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, two small hole to the leather on back board. Internally fine and clean with small number (8), 204 (i.e. 304), 141, (3), 138 pp.

The rare first edition of this history of the Spanish conquest of South America and the Caribbean Indies in which Castro’s, a relatively unknown conquistador, meeting with Monteczuma II and Fort Tucapel in Chile is vividly described.  
Only very few contemporary sources describe Don Henrique de Castro’s exploits. In 1617, in what is regarded as being the first novel to be set in Spanish America (Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro, 1617) a, mostly fictive, knightly romance between Don Henrique and Princess Elisauira set in Chile was published.

Order-nr.: 61310