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 PiƧarrists 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
London : Printed by M. Flesher for Christopher Wilkinson ..., 1688
Physical Details
[8], 1019 (i.e. 1015), [9] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., port., plan ; 33 cm. (fol.)
OCLC
ocm77800401
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.
Pages 48 and 535 misnumbered 84 and 527 respectively; pages 23-26 omitted in numbering.