The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts : the first part : treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas ... : the scond [sic] part : describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards, also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians ... and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures /

The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts : the first part : treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas ... : the scond [sic] part : describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards, also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians ... and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures /

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Author / Creator:	Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616
Imprint:	London : Printed by M. Flesher for C. Wilkinson, 1688.
Description:	4 p. l., 1019 (i.e. 1015), [8] p. : port., plan ; 33 cm.
Language:	English Spanish
Subject:	Incas Indians of South America -- Peru Incas. Indians of South America. Peru -- History -- To 1548 Peru -- History -- 1548-1820 Peru. Early works History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3207220

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Notes:	Pages 48 and 535 incorrectly numbered 84 and 527 respectively; pages 23-26 omitted in numbering. Title in red and black. Also issued with imprints of J. Tonson and S. Heyrick. Pt. 1 of the Spanish original was first printed at Lisbon in 1609, with colophon dated 1608; pt. 2 was first printed at Cordova in 1616. "... [Rycaut] had a very slight knowledge of the Spanish language and he did not scruple to make wild guesses at the meaning of sentences, and to omit whole chapters. Thus he only gives fourteen out of the twenty-six chapters in the first book, and sixteen out of the twenty-six in the second."-C. S. Markham's introd. to the First part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, v. 1, p. xvi.

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