Parte primera De la chronica del Peru
Subtitle: Que 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: Fecha por Pedros Cieça de Leon vezino de Seuilla. 1553. Con priuillegio Real
Published: 1553
Place of publication: Seville
Language: spa
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Work titles: Chronica del Peru. 1a parte
Notes: Colophon: Impressa en Seuilla en casa de Martin de montesdoca. Acabose a quinze de Março de mill y quinientos y cinquenta y tres años.

First edition.

Woodcut of royal arms at head of title. Title in red and black within ornamental border.

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 and the two "Comentarios" save that the author, in his "Proemio" to the first part, speaks of them as finished.--Medina, Bibl. his.-amer., t.ℓ.

"One of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of the Spanish Conquest in America. It is, in fact, the only book which exhibits the physical aspects of the country as it existed under the elaborate culture of the Incas."

JCB I, ℓ, p. 175.