Americas.- Casas (Bartolomé de las) Popery Truly Display'din its Bloody Colours; Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexpampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the Inhabitants of West-India: together with the devastations of several kingdoms in America by fire and sword, for the space of forty and two years, from the time of its first discovery by them, title within ruled woodcut border, small hold to head of F3, not affecting text, occasional light foxing or browning, 20th-century calf, g.e., [Sabin 11288; Wing C798], small 4to, for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhil, near the Stocks-Market, 1689. ⁂ Rare, only one other copy at auction in the last 50 years and no copies in the British Library. A new translation of Casas' Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, here specifically adapted for British propaganda purposes.
Americas.- Casas (Bartolomé de las) Popery Truly Display'din its Bloody Colours; Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexpampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the Inhabitants of West-India: together with the devastations of several kingdoms in America by fire and sword, for the space of forty and two years, from the time of its first discovery by them, title within ruled woodcut border, small hold to head of F3, not affecting text, occasional light foxing or browning, 20th-century calf, g.e., [Sabin 11288; Wing C798], small 4to, for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhil, near the Stocks-Market, 1689. ⁂ Rare, only one other copy at auction in the last 50 years and no copies in the British Library. A new translation of Casas' Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, here specifically adapted for British propaganda purposes.
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