Excerpt from Historia general de las Indias y conquista de México (General History of the Indies and Conquest of Mexico) by Francisco López de Gómara, first published 1552. In La cosmographia by Peter Apian, 1575.
French edition (1620) of Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies) by Bartolomé de las Casas, first published 1552.
In this book, the author offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border…