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Title :

Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida.Contiene los descubrimientos, y principales sucesos, acaecidos en este gran reino, à los espa|noles, franceses, suecos, dinamarqueses, ingleses, y otras naciones, entre sì, y con los indios: cuias costumbres, genios, idolatria, govierno, batallas, y astucias, se refieren: y los viages de algunos capitanes, y pilotos, por el Mar de el Norte, à buscar paso à Oriente, o vnion de aquella tierra, con Asia. Desde el a|no de 1512. que descubriò la Florida, Juan Ponce de Leon, hasta el de 1722. Escrito por don Gabriel de Gardenas y Cano [pseud.]

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Author :

[Barcia Carballido y Zú|niga, Andrés González de, 1673-1743.]

Published :

Madrid, En la Oficina real, y à costa de N. Rodriguez Franco, 1723.

Subject Heading(s) :

Florida--History--Colonial period to 1821.
North America--History--Colonial period.
Indians of North America.
Northwest Passage.
Avilés family.

Description :

20 p. ¾, 366 p., 1 ¾., [54] p. fold. geneal. tab. 32cm.

Notes :

Title in red and black. Text in double columns. Genealogical table: Casa de los adelantados de la Florida, condes de Canalejas [familia de Avilés]
Issued as the second part of Garcilaso de la Vega's La Florida del Inca. (Madrid: 1723).
A chorological history, 1512 -1722; the foremost authority on the history of Florida during the first two centuries. Includes a detailed account of French attempts to establish a colony; and the text of the memoir of Solis de las Mersa, an eye-witness to the massacre of Ribault and his companions; cf. Jared Sparks, The lives of John Ribult (1845), p3 155
Nueva edicion, Madrid 1829, 2 v. (Historia de la conquista del Nuevo-Mundo, v. 8-9.).

Sabin, Joseph Bibliotheca Americana; a dictionary of books relating to America [contined by Wilberforce Eames and completed by R.W.G. Vail] N.Y.: 1868 - 1892, 1928 - 1936 29 v. 3349,
Field, Thomas W. An essay towards an Indian bibliography. Being a catalogue of books relating to the history... and origin of the American Indians. [Rev. ed., ed. by William S. Reese] New haven: 1991 80;
Storm, Colton, comp. A catalogue of the Everett D. Graff collection of Western Americana. Chicago: 1968 181;
Servies, James A. A bibliography of West Florida 3d ed. Pensacola: 1982 4 v. 1723-1,

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