Del único modo de atraer a todos los pueblos a la verdadera religión. Advertencia preliminar y edición y anotación del texto latino por Augustín Millares Carlo. Introducción por Lewis Hanke. Versión española por Atenógenes Santamaría
Mexico [City]: Fondo de Cultura Economica, [1942]. First edition in Spanish, thick 8vo, pp. [iii]-xliv, 593, [3]; 2 leaves of facsimiles; original gray wrappers printed in red and black; near fine. Latin and Spanish text on opposite pages. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry Library release stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper and a previous ownership signature of the Wisconsin poet Edith Franklin Wyatt on the verso. Bartolomé de las Casas was 16th century historian and Dominican friar. He recorded and argued against the atrocities committed by the Spanish against the Native Americans, and was an early abolitionist. For this he is considered one of the first advocates for universal human rights. "Primera reimpresión del texto latino, con arreglo al manuscrito de Oxaca del siglo XVI, 1942. Primera versión española y primera edición." Palau 46999. Item #49658
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