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TitleThe general history of the vast continent and islands of America: commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities : collected from the original relations sent to the kings of SpainNotePhysical details: ill., maps, ports. (engravings)An abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's "Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos", divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original. Cf. Stevens, H. Bibliotheca historica, p. xiii; Winsor, v.2, p. 68 and p. 563; Prescott, W.H. Conquest of Mexico, book III, chap. IX, notes.Vol. 1: [8], 379, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 2: [2], 436 p., [4] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [2], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: [2], 422, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 5: [2], 430, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 6: [2], 408, [32] p., [1] folded leaf of plates.Includes index.Title pages printed in red and black.Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [1] at end; v. 4, [2] p. at end; v. 5, [2] p. at end.; v. 6, p. [31-32] at end.Dimensions20 cm (8vo)Extent6 v.Provision ActivityPublication: England 1725/1726 Publication: London: Printed for Jer. Batley ...; MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726] Responsibility Statementby Antonio de Herrera ... ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens ... ; illustrated with cutts and maps.