Tratado co[m]probatorio del Imperio soberano y principado vniuersal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las Indias:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB, Eguiguren, Francisco Antonio de. fmo RIBRL · 1553 · Fue impressa la presente obra en la muy noble & muy leal ciudad d[e] Seuilla : En casa d[e] Sebastia[n] Trugillo impressor de libros · 2 pictures

This 1553 Spanish treatise by Bartolomé de las Casas was printed in Seville by Sebastián Trujillo for a readership of legal and religious scholars, arguing that the Castilian crown held sovereign universal dominion over the Indies. Its pages are dense blackletter text set in justified columns, opening with a large decorated initial letter whose ornate woodcut frame and tall capital give a designer a model for historic display typography and page hierarchy.

Indians, Treatment of · Imprint 1553

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