(Americana) Jeronimo Roman Y Zamora (1536-1597). Republicas - Lot 225

(Americana) Jeronimo Roman Y Zamora (1536-1597). Republicas del Mundo. Dividas en tres partes. Ordenadas por F. Hieronimo Roman, frayle professo de la Orden de S. Augustin... Salamanca, en Casa de Ivan Fernandez, 1595, in-folio, de 4-271ff., full 17th century vellum, handwritten title on spine, binding ties. Third part only, in its collation Sabin gives 22 unnumbered leaves at the beginning of the work versus 4 here, the title page is missing. Second edition, the first in 2 volumes appeared in 1575, this third part deals notably with the West Indies, China, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Morocco, Ethiopia, etc... This second edition was published after it was placed on the Index, the author having used Bartolomé de Las Casas as a source to present Spanish colonization in South America (Sabin-A72895).