The Guanches of Tenerife The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement by the Friar Alonso de Espinosa

Written 1580-90 first published at Seville in 1594 translated with notes and an introduction. The edition includes a bibliography of the Canary Islands 1341-1907 pp. 187-203. Translation of books I-III with facsimiles of original t.p. and colophon of the author's: Del origen y milagros de la santa imagen de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria que aparecio en la isla de Tenerife con la descripcion de esta isla ... Sevilla 1594. The fourth book containing a list of sixty-five miracles is omitted. Also includes: 'Remnants of the Guanche language' : p. xx-xxvi. 'Report on the present condition of the image of Our Lady of Candelaria by Miss Ethel Trew' : p. [137]-138. 'Bibliography of the Canary Islands' : p. [139]-201. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.