NUIX, J. ABATE

REFLEXIONES IMPARCIALES SOBRE LA HUMANIDAD DE LOS ESPANOLES EN LAS INDIAS CONTRA LOS PRETENDIDOS FILOSOFOS Y POLITICOS. PARA ILUSTRAR LAS HISTORIAS DE MM. RAYNAL Y ROBERTSON MADRID JOACHIN IBARRA 1782

      4to LII + 315 pp Publisher�s leather Good copy Large 4to. Contemporary red morocco, tooled in gilt with coat of arms stamped in gilt on cover.- The first Spanish edition, translated from the original Italian written by an exiled Spanish Jesuit. Nuix weighs in on the controversy surrounding Spanish treatment of the native population in the Americas. Thoug he recongnizes the violence perpetrated against the Indians. He defends Spanish colonialism as a grand and greater good brought to the Americas.- This is a large paper copy of this important work, bound especially for Charles III, King of Spain (1759-1788) in full red morocco. The covers are stamped with the royal coat of arms. A discrete 19th-century bookplate of the Baroness Rothchild adorns the front pastedown, showing the embossed arms of the Rothchild family. Large paper copies of this work are exceedingly rare, and certainly none have so fine a provenance as this.- *Palau 196692. Sabin 56309. Medina 5007. Escritas en italiano y traducidas con algunas notas por Pedro Varela y Ulloa, del Consejo de S. M. su Secretario con exercicio de Decretos en la 3 Mesa de la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho Universal de Marina.