Note 1045 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

[It is worth from $30 to $40. It is called Historia de las Indias, ahora por primera vez dada á luz por el Marqués de la Fuensanta del Valle y José Sancho Rayon. It contains, beginning in vol. v. at p. 237, the Apologética historia which Las Casas had written to defend the Indians against aspersions upon their lives and character. This latter work was not included in another edition of the Historia printed at Mexico in two volumes in 1877-1878. Cf. Vigel, Biblioteca Mexicana. Parts of the Apologética are given in Kingsborough’s Mexico, vol. viii. Cf. on the Historia, Irving’s Columbus, App.; Helps’s Spanish Conquest (Am. ed.), i. 23, and Life of Las Casas, p. 175; Ticknor, Spanish Literature, ii. 39; Humboldt’s Cosmos (Eng. tr.), ii. 679; H. H. Bancroft, Central America, i. 309; Prescott’s Mexico, i. 378; Quintana’s Vidas, iii. 507.—Ed.]