Item #011669 FRAY BARTOLME DE LAS CASAS. Americo Castro.

FRAY BARTOLME DE LAS CASAS

Paris: Centrre De Recherches de l'Institute d'Etudes Hispaniques, 1966. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Academic paper, an extract from Melanges a la Memoire de Jean Sarrailh, by perhaps the most influential 20thC Spanish historian, Americo Castro (1885 - 1972) about Fray Bartolme(1484 - 1566) famous historian and social reformer in the discovery days of Spanish colonialism. Pamphlet, stiff printed covers, stapled spine, 38pp. Inscribed with compliments by Castro on the front cover, stapled on its verso is half-sheet, double sided TLS, dated LaJolla CA, 20 May0 1966 to Diane Balmori Pelli, landscape architect and spouse of modernist archiotect Cesar Pelli, both Argentinian-born. The letter, friendly in tone, relates his doinsg in California and his academic projects and recent publications. Fine. Item #011669

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