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1726. BOOK. (HISTORY—AMERICA). HERRERA Y TORDESILLA, JUAN DE:. GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DEEDS OF THE CASTILIANS IN THE ISLANDS AND ON THE MAINLAND OF THE OCEAN. THIRD DECADE. Madrid: Royal Printing Office of Nicolás Rodríguez Franco, 1726. Small folio. Engraved title page with various scenes + 1 ill. + 296 pp. [Continued:] ... FOURTH DECADE. Ibid., 1730. Engraved title page with scenes + 2 leaves + 232 pp. Text in two columns, with woodcut headers, capitals, and culs-de-lampe; at the beginning of each decade’s text, two intaglio-engraved headers. Marginal notes. Deep gouges on the front endpaper and the first few blank pages, extending slightly onto the first pages. Bound in 19th-century Spanish cloth, with a label.