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The Spanish conquest in America : and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies
- Title
- The Spanish conquest in America : and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies / by Arthur Helps.
- Author
- Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875
- Publication
- London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1855-1861.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 4 (1961) | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America v. 4 (1961) | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 4 | Text | Use in library | Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 4 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 4 | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 4 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 3 (1857) | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America v. 3 (1857) | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 3 | Text | Use in library | Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 3 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 3 | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 3 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 2 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 (1855) | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America v. 1 (1855) | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America) v. 1 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America. v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Stuart 5515-5518 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 4 volumes : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Ink stamps (Provenance)
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Withdrawn copies (Provenance)
- Note
- Based upon the author's "The conquerors of the new world and their bondsmen"--volume 1, page [iii].
- With a half-title in each volume.
- Publication dates: volumes 1-2: 1855; volume 3: 1857; volume 4: 1861.
- Publisher, volume 4: Parker, Son and Bourn.
- "London: Savill and Edwards, printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden."--printer statement, verso of title page in volumes 1, 3-4.
- Plates in volume 2 are a double-plate map, "Ancient Mexico, taken from an edition of the Letters of Cortes, published at Nuremburg A.D. MDXXIV." drawn by T.E. Morgan and engraved by J.W. Lowry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed In (note)
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in ink on title page of volume 1 "H.W. Torrey." With the ink stamps on title page of each volume: "Library of the University of Va." "The gift of H.W. Torrey Libr." ; Inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding title page of volume 3 "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- [vol. 1] bk. 1. Prince Henry of Portugal -- bk. 2. Columbus -- bk. 3. Ovando -- bk. 4. The Dominicans -- bk. 5. Ojeda and Nicuesa -- bk. 6. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa -- bk. 7. Cuba -- bk. 8. Las Casas as a colonist and a reformer -- [vol. 2] bk. 9. Las Casas -- bk. 10. Hernando Cortes -- bk. 11. The siege of Mexico -- [vol. 3] bk. 12. The administration of Cortes -- bk. 13. Nicaragua -- bk. 14. Encomiendas -- bk. 15. Guatemala -- bk. 16. The conquest of Peru -- [vol. 4] bk. 17. The feud between the Pizarros and the Almagros -- bk. 18. The new laws -- bk. 19. The reconquest of Peru by the President Gasca -- bk. 20. The protectors of the Indians: their efforts and achievements -- bk. 21. A general survey of Spanish colonization in America -- Appendix -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America)
- LCCN
- 03008397
- OCLC
- 5019795
- 16777568
- Author
- Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875, author.
- Title
- The Spanish conquest in America : and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies / by Arthur Helps.
- Publisher
- London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1855-1861.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed In:
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4715
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 972.02-H (accession nos. B546506-B547509) inscribed: in ink on title page of volume 1 "H.W. Torrey." With the ink stamps on title page of each volume: "Library of the University of Va." "The gift of H.W. Torrey Libr." ; Inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding title page of volume 3 "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Local Note
- Schomburg Center researchers are limited to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-2475, or the electronic resource.
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- Added Author
- John W. Parker and Son, publisher.Parker, Son, and Bourn, publisher.Savill and Edwards, printer.Lowry, Joseph Wilson, 1803-1879, engraver.Torrey, H. W. (Henry Warren), 1814-1893, former owner, inscriber.University of Virginia. Library, former owner.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 972.02-H (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America)HCB (Helps, A. Spanish conquest in America. 1855-61)Stuart 5515-5518