Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

Portrait of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, located at the Colombian Academy of History. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (August 14781557), commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies, arriving in the first few years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands in 1492. Oviedo's chronicle ''Historia general de las Indias'', published in 1535 to expand on his 1526 summary ''La Natural hystoria de las Indias'' (collectively reprinted, three centuries after his death, as ''Historia general y natural de las Indias''), forms one of the few primary sources about it. Portions of the original text were widely read in the 16th century in Spanish, English, Italian and French editions, and introduced Europeans to the hammock, the pineapple, and tobacco as well as creating influential representations of the colonized peoples of the region. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Madrid, Editorial Summa, 1942.
    230 p., 1 ̋. 19 cm.
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    Toledo, 1526.
    [1] p. ̋., ij-lij numb. ̋., [4] p. illus. 29 cm.
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    Madrid : Ediciones Atlas, 1959.
    5 v.
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    En Valladolid. Por Francisco Fernandez de Cordoua Impressor de su Magestad. Año de .M.D.L.VII.
    64 numb. leaves illus. 29 cm.
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    [Valencia, Juan Viñao, 1519]
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    [Managua, Banco de América, Fondo de Promoción Cultural, 1976]
    3 p. l., 579 p. facsims. 21 cm.
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    Valencia, por Iuan Viñao, 1519.
    74 leaves.
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    Salamanca, Junta, 1547.
    4 p. l., cxcij, xxij, numb. l., [2] p. illus. 30 cm.
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    México : Fondo de Cultura Económico, 1950.
    279 p.
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    by Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
    Published 1577
    Imprinted at London by Richard Iugge: 1577.
    10 p., l., 466 numb. l., 6l. diagr. 20 cm.
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    by Vedia, Enrique de
    Published 1852
    Madrid, Impr. de M. Rivadeneyra, 1852-53.
    2 v. 26 cm.
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