London, Val Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley, 1604.
The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. Written in Spanish… and translated into English by E.G.
First English edition of this eyewitness anthropological account of the Americas, chiefly Inca Peru and Aztec Mesoamerica, by the Jeusit father José de Acosta, “a more thoughtful and a more thorough account of the Indian world than anything then available” (Pagden). Acosta’s crowning achievement in the present volume is his..... More