[Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas,

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reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra Con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, Ordinario, y Paco. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 [but 1608]. Small folio, late eighteenth-century full mottled calf (rubbed, some wear to edges and corners), spine with raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, paste-down with early bookplate (contemporary with binding); edges stained red; [9] unnumbered leaves (lacking engraved coat of arms), 264 ff.; lacking errata leaf; colophon to verso of leaf 264, with date of 1608, and with an early ownership signature; woodcut initials; text in double columns; title-leaf re-margined, and with modern ownership stamp with monogram FvD , occasional marginal water-staining including to top outer corners of preliminaries, f. 1 repaired at upper margin. The first edition of the first part of Inca historian Garcilaso de la Vega s Commentarios reales de los Incas , the first work published by an Andean mestizo writer. Garcilaso, the son of a conquistador and an Indian woman of royal blood, was born in Cuzco within a generation of the Spanish conquest, hence his description of pre-conquest Incan culture and society is near contemporary and unsurpassed in its importance as a primary source for this subject. In 1560 Garcilaso travelled to Spain, where he was to remain until his death. The second part of Commentarios reales de los Incas , dealing with the conquest and first ph

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