Parte primera de la Chronica del Perv
Subtitle: qve tracta la demarcacion de sus prouincias, la descripcion dellas, las fundaciones de las nueuas ciudades, los ritos y costumbres de los indios, y otras cosas estrañas dignas de ser sabidas
By: hecha por Pedro de Cieça de Leon ... ; añadiose de nueuo la descripcion y traça de todas las Indias, con vna tabla alphabetica delas materiales principales enella contenidas
Series: Books printed in the Low Countries before 1601 -- r.80 item 2
Publisher: Steelsio
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Anvers
Language: spa
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Early works to 1600; Indians of South America; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Parte primera de la Chronica del Peru
Work titles: Chronica del Peru. 1a parte
Notes: First edition, Seville, 1553.

The "Chronica" as left by Cieza de León was divided into four parts, of which only the first was published before the 19th century. Part 2 was first issued in 1873. Of part 4, books 1 and 3 appeared in 1877, and book 2 in 1881. Nothing is known of books 4 and 5 of part 4 and the two "Comentarios" save that the author, in his "Proemio" to the first part, speaks of them as finished. In regard to the manuscript of the third part, Márcos Jiménez de la Espada in the "Prólogo" to book 3 of part 4 of the "Chronica", published in 1877, states that he knows with certainty that it exists and where, although he has not seen it. cf. Cieza de León, Tercero libro de las guerras civiles del Perú (Prologo) Madrid, 1877; also Medina, Biblioteca hisp.-amer., t. 1.

Colophon: Impresso en Anuers por J. Lacio M.D.LIII.

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