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Author Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.
Uniform Title Comentarios reales de los Incas. English
Title 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, with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards : also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels, and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.
Publication Info London : Printed by Miles Flesher, for Samuel Heyrick ..., 1688.


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Descript [23], 1019, p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
Note Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
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.
Index: p. [14]-[23]
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Author Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Incas -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of South America -- Peru.
Peru -- History -- To 1820.
Alt author Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.
Descript [23], 1019, p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
Note Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
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.
Index: p. [14]-[23]
Author Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Incas -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of South America -- Peru.
Peru -- History -- To 1820.
Alt author Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.

Subject Incas -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of South America -- Peru.
Peru -- History -- To 1820.
Descript [23], 1019, p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
Note Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
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.
Index: p. [14]-[23]
Alt author Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.
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