An account of the conquest of Peru
By: written by Pedro Sancho, seretary to Pizarro and scrivener to his army;tr. into English and annotated by Phillip Ainsworth Means. New York, The Cortes society, 1917.
Contributors: Means, Philip Ainsworth, 1892-1944. tr.; Cortes Society (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Documents and narratives concerning the discovery and conquest of Latin America -- no. 2.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1969
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548
Notes: The original Spanish manuscript is lost. An Italian translation by G.B. Ramusio was published in his "Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi ... Venetia, 1556," l. 371-414. It was translated from the Italian into Spanish by Josquin Garciá Icazbalceta, in 1849, and published as an appendix to his Spanish translation of Prescott's "History of the conquest of Peru". It was republished in "Obrás de ... Garcia Icazbalceta", Mexico, 1898, v. 8. The present English translation is from the Spanish text issued by Garcia Icazbalceta in in 1849. Cf. Translator's pref., p. 6.

"Bibliography of works consulted in the course of this translation of Pedro Sancho": p. 199-203.