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Book/Printed Material Report of What Happened to the Royal Navy of the Philippines, and the Victory Achieved Against the Dutch, Who Had Besieged the City of Manila for Six Months. Relacion del svceso dela armada real de Philipinas, y vitoria que alcanço delos Olandeses, que tuuieron sitiada seys meses ala Ciudad de Manila

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Title

  • Report of What Happened to the Royal Navy of the Philippines, and the Victory Achieved Against the Dutch, Who Had Besieged the City of Manila for Six Months.

Other Title

  • Relacion del svceso dela armada real de Philipinas, y vitoria que alcanço delos Olandeses, que tuuieron sitiada seys meses ala Ciudad de Manila

Summary

  • Relación del suceso dela armada real de Philipinas, y vitoria que alcanço delos Olandeses, que tuvieron sitiada seys meses ala Ciudad de Manila (Report of what happened to the royal navy of the Philippines, and the victory achieved against the Dutch, who had besieged the city of Manila for six months) was published in Lima, Peru, in 1619. The book deals with the events of October 1616-April 1617, when a fleet of Dutch ships blockaded the entrance to Manila Bay, before being driven off by a Spanish armada. The first printing press in South America was established in Lima by Antonio Ricardo (circa 1540-1606), an Italian who had worked for a time as a printer with the Jesuits in Mexico City. This book is part of a collection of 39 first editions in the National Library of Peru, produced at the press between 1584 and 1619. The collection was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2013. In Latin, Spanish, and several Amerindian languages, these books are an important part of the record of the encounter between two worlds: the Amerindian civilization of the Incas and the European culture represented by the Spanish conquistadors. They are important sources for the study of the dissemination of ideas in the Spanish Empire, including the evangelization process and the diffusion of Catholicism on the one hand and the debate over the indigenous peoples and their condition as human beings on the other. Several of the books provide insights into the political, cultural, and social organization of the vanquished Inca civilization, as well as a record of the Quechua and Aymara languages spoken by the Incas.

Names

  • Gonzáles de Arcos, Diego Author.

Created / Published

  • Lima, Peru : Francisco del Canto, 1619.

Headings

  • -  Netherlands
  • -  Spain
  • -  Philippines--Manila--Manila
  • -  1616-10 to 1617-04
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Military operations, Naval
  • -  Naval battles
  • -  Netherlands. Royal Navy
  • -  Spain--Colonies
  • -  Spain. Armada

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 30 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Peru.
  • -  Content in Spanish.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Peruvian First Editions

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666897

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gonzáles De Arcos, Diego Author. Report of What Happened to the Royal Navy of the Philippines, and the Victory Achieved Against the Dutch, Who Had Besieged the City of Manila for Six Months. Lima, Peru: Francisco del Canto, 1619. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666897/.

APA citation style:

Gonzáles De Arcos, D. A. (1619) Report of What Happened to the Royal Navy of the Philippines, and the Victory Achieved Against the Dutch, Who Had Besieged the City of Manila for Six Months. Lima, Peru: Francisco del Canto. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666897/.

MLA citation style:

Gonzáles De Arcos, Diego Author. Report of What Happened to the Royal Navy of the Philippines, and the Victory Achieved Against the Dutch, Who Had Besieged the City of Manila for Six Months. Lima, Peru: Francisco del Canto, 1619. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666897/>.