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 ... : the scond [sic] part : describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards, also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians ... and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures
By: written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendred [sic] into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, kt
Publisher: Printed by M. Flesher for C. Wilkinson
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Number of pages: 1019
Subjects: Incas; Indians of South America; History
Work titles: Comentarios reales de los incas
Notes: Pages 48 and 535 incorrectly numbered 84 and 527 respectively; pages 23-26 omitted in numbering.

Title in red and black.

Also issued with imprints of J. Tonson and S. Heyrick.

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.