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Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566, Winghe, Jodocus van, 1544-1603, Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?, Galler, Hieronymus, fl. 1611-1627 · 1614 · Oppenheimii : Sumptibus Johan-Theod. de Bry : Typis Hieronymi Galleri · 26 pictures

This Latin edition, printed at Oppenheim in 1614 by Johann Theodor de Bry and Hieronymus Galler, is a Spanish-atrocity account by Bartolomé de las Casas with engravings by Jodocus van Winghe, aimed at a European Protestant readership. Its copperplate scenes show crowds, weapons, bodies, fire and terrain in dense, crosshatched compositions a designer might study for rendering crowded action and dramatic chiaroscuro.

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