Christian Doctrine for the Instruction and Information of the Indians

Description

Author: de Cordoba, Pedro  (c. 1460-1525)

Translator: Stoudemire, Sterling A.

Publisher: University of Miami Press

Pub Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped.  Slight wear to upper and lower front corners.  Wear to head of spine.  Some sun-fading to the top edge of the flaps.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Okay, you’re in a foreign country, don’t speak the language, want to convert the native population to your belief system.  Yeah, let’s start with a beginning catechism, throw ’em right into the deep end of the Triumvirate.  One of the first books published in the New World, first published in Mexico City in 1544 (23 years after the author’s death–let the conversions start).  I’m not sure that this isn’t a second printing–there’s no indication other than a Library of Congress number that starts 79-, when the copyright date is 1970.