Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca":

$75,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

LA FLORIDA DEL YNCA. HISTORIA DEL ADELANTADO HERNANDO DE SOTO, GOUERNADOR Y CAPITAN GENERAL DEL REYNO DE LA FLORIDA, Y DE OTROS HEROICOS CAUALLEROS ESPANOLES E ... One of the basic works on the De Soto Expedition, written by the half Spanish-half Peruvian historian of the New World Garcilaso de la Vega ("El Inca"), the first distinguished man of letters to be born there. De Soto, one of the most famous of the conquistadors, landed in Florida, near Tampa Bay, in the spring of 1539. He explored northward, attacking and enslaving local Indians until retaliatory strikes made his progress a running battle. In 1540 the expedition moved north and then west, crossing present-day Georgia, through central South Carolina and into western North Carolina. From here he crossed northern Alabama and Mississippi, where several major Indian attacks deprived the expedition of much of its equipment. In the spring of 1541 he crossed the Mississippi, and spent all of that year in present-day Arkansas. De Soto died the following year and was buried in the Mississippi to conceal his loss from the Indians; the survivors of the expedition rafted down the river and managed to sail small boats to Mexico. The De Soto expedition is thus the first major European exploration of much of the Southeast United States, as well as Arkansas. This is the first edition of one of the two primary accounts of the expedition."This is a contemporary narrative of Hernando de Soto's Conquest of Florida, and the second to b

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