GARCIA, Pe. Gregorio, O.P.- Origen de los Indios de el Nuevo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales, averiguado con discurso de opiniones [...] Tratanse en este libro varias cosas, y puntos curiosos, tocantes à diversas Ciencias, i Faculdades, con que se hace varia Historia, de mucho gusto para el Ingenio, i Entendimiento de Hombres agudos, i curiosos.- Segunda impression. Enmendada, y añadida de algunas opiniones...- En Madrid: En la Imprenta de Francisco Martinez Abad., 1729.- [32], 336, [80] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E. Father Gregório Garcia (1556/61-1627), a Spanish Dominican missionary, born in Cózar (Jaén), spent 12 years in the missions in America, three of them in New Spain (colonial viceroyalty in North and Central America, with capital in Mexico City) and nine in Peru. Second edition of his most important work, the original edition having been published in Valencia in 1607. The title page is illustrated with a curious copper plate print, representing a landing of missionaries near an Indian village. The second sheet includes a large engraving of St. Thomas Aquinas to whom the work is dedicated. Copy a little cropped and with slight handling, but complete and solid. Ex-libris of Oscar Benjamin Cintas. Contemporary binding, fully flexible parchment, with the first flying endpaper missing. Palau, 98007.