The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts
Subtitle: 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 Piçarrists 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
By: written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.
Contributors: Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 915:16.
Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Samuel Heyrick ...
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 1019
Subjects: Incas -- Early works to 1800.; Indians of South America -- Peru.; Peru -- History -- To 1820.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Comentarios reales de los Incas.
Notes: Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.

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.

Index: p. [14]-[23]

Wing G215

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 915:16)