Collection of rare and original documents and relations, concerning the discovery and conquest of America.
Subtitle: Chiefly from the Spanish archives. No. I. Published in the original, with translations, illustrative notes, maps, and biographical sketches
By: by E. G. Squier ...
Publisher: J. Munsell
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Albany
Language: spa
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Indians of Central America.; America -- Early works to 1600.; El Salvador.; Copán (Honduras) -- Antiquities.
Genres: Early works to 1600.
Notes: Spanish and English on opposite pages.

No more published.

One hundred copies printed on small and ten on large paper. cf. Sabin, Bibl. amer., no. 58270.

Text "is now for the first time published from the original Spanish. It is from a manuscript copy made by the historian Muñoz, and preserved in the Royal academy of history at Madrid."--p. [3]

"Map of the ancient provinces Guazacapan [etc.] E. G. Squier, del."

"Biographical note" [of Don Diego Garcia de Palacio] : p. [13]-16.
Table of contents: title: Carta dirijida al rey de España, por el licenciado dr. Don Diego Gracia de Palacio ... año 1576. Being a description fo the ancient provinces of Guazacapan, Izalco, Cuscatlan, and Chiquimula, in the audiencia of Guatemala: with an account of the languages, customs and religion of their aboriginal inhabitants, and a description of the ruins of Copan.