1973 Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles: Fray Jeronimo de Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

A two-volume set in the publisher's original quarter morocco binding with paper boards.

A two-volume facsimile of Jerónimo de Mendieta's famous historical work Historia Eclesiástica Indiana, which provides an account of the Franciscan evangelisation in the colony of New Spain in the Americas.

Jerónimo de Mendieta (1525-1604), otherwise known as Gerónimo de Mendieta, was a Franciscan missionary and historian, who spent most of his life in the Spanish Empire's possessions in Mexico and Central America.

This two-volume work is part of a series on Spanish authors. This particular set has a detailed introduction by Francisco de Solano y Perez-Lila (1930-1996), the Spanish historian and Americanist.