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1596. BOOK. (LITERATURE). ERCILLA Y ÇUÑIGA, ALONSO DE:. FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD PARTS OF THE ARAUCANA BY DO[N]... Perpignan (sic): published by Sanson Arbus, 1596. Small 8vo. 17 folios + 323 pages + 2 folios; woodcut on the title page. Some leaves slightly discolored. Bound in period parchment, spine labeled, endpapers repaired. Palau 80420. CCPB 22428-6; few copies in Spain, only one in the BNE. Third edition of the three-part text in a single volume; the previous editions were published in Madrid and Barcelona. This is the first time this poem—which recounts the events of Spanish colonization in the southernmost part of the Americas—has been published in Perpignan.