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 Piycarrists 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 rendred into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt

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  • 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 Piycarrists 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 rendred into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt
  • Comentarios reales de los Incas. English
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Imprint
London: printed by Miles Flesher, for Christopher Wilkinson at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Added name
Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700, tr.; Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, artist.
Publication year
1688
ESTC No.
R11045
Grub Street ID
59369
Description
[8], 22, 27-1019, [9] p., [11] leaves of plates (1 folded) : map ; 2°.
Note
A translation of: Comentarios reales de los Incas

"[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 i the second"--C.S. Markham's introd. to The first part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, v. 1, p. xvi

Title page in red and black

With an additional letterpress title page

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the translator (pi1r), signed: P. Lely pinxit. R. White sculpsit

Order of preliminaries varies

Includes index, which is sometimes bound following preliminaries instead of at end

"The second part of The general history of Peru" has divisional title page on 3G4

Leaf 3G3 is blank; One of four imprint variants of this edition.
Uncontrolled note
Some copies may have "The scond part" in line 13 of title