Collection of rare and original documents and relations, concerning the discovery and conquest of America
Subtitle: Chiefly from the Spanish archives. No. 1.
By: Published in the original, with translations, illustrative notes, maps, and biographical sketches, by E. G. Squier ...
Publisher: C. B. Norton
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Indians of Central America -- Languages.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.; El Salvador -- Description and travel.; Copán (Honduras) -- Antiquities.
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Spanish and English on opposite pages.

Biographical note of Don Diego Garcia de Palacio": p. [13]-16.

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 historical Nuñoz, and preserved in the Royal academy of history at Madrid."--p. [3].
Table of contents: title: no. 1 Carta dirijida al rey de España, por el licenciado dr. don Diego Garcia de Palacio ... año 1576. Being a description of the ancient provinces of Guazacapan, Izalco, Cuscatlan, and Chiquimula, in the audencia of Guatemala: with an account of the languages, customs and religion of their aboriginal inhabitants, and a description of the ruins of Copan.