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History of the Incas, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo - With a Supplement: A Narrative of the Vice-Regal Embassy to Vilcabamba, 1571, and of the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, December 1571, by Friar Gabriel de Oviedo, of Cuzco. 1573 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sir Clements Markham
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Discovery Miles 41 770
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Translated from the original manuscript in the Library of the
University at Goettingen (Col. ms. hist. 809) as published by R.
Pietschmann in Abhandlungen d. K. Gesellschaft d. Wiss. zu
Goettingen. Philol. Hist. Kl., N.F., Bd. VI, no. 4 (1906). The
second part of the author's Historia indica; a first part (Historia
natural destas tierras) and a third which was to contain the
history of the conquest until 1572 were projected, but apparently
never completed. The first text was dedicated to Philip II in 1572;
the second was written in 1610. The edition includes a bibliography
of Peru, pp. 341-58. Pagination of this and the Supplement is
continuous.The Supplement is another eye-witness account.
Internally stated to have been issued as a separate item, yet in
fact bound within the previous item. This is a new print-on-demand
hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.
Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For
other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see
Second Series 31 and 42. This is a new print-on-demand hardback
edition of the volume first published in 1923.
Three narratives of voyages to the Pacific, translated and edited.
The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series
15) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition
of the volume first published in 1904. Owing to technical
constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the three maps
original included in a pocket at the back of the first edition of
the work.
Continues Second Series 15. Two further narratives, translated and
edited, including one by Torquemada, and an appendix of letters and
memoranda addressed to Philip III. The supplementary material
includes the annual report for 1903. Contents: True account of the
events of the voyage that the Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
made by order of His Majesty to the southern unknown land, by
Caspar Gonzalez de Leza. Torquemada's Voyage of Quiros;
translation, with notes, from the "Monarquia indiana." Letter from
Luis Vaez de Torres ... to the king of Spain, giving an account of
his voyage to Manila after parting company with Quiros. ... Legends
on the four maps signed Diego de Prado y Tobar. Illustrating the
discoveries of Quiros and Torres. Appendix 1. Eighth memorial of
Quiros, 1606. II-III. Memorials of Quiros 1609. iv. Memorial of Don
Fernando de Castro, 1608. v. Letters from Don Diego de Prado y
Tobar, 1613. vi. Note on the Memorial of Captain Quiros to the
Council of the Indies, 1610. vii. Memorial touching papers printed
by Quiros, 1610. viii. Memorial by Juan Luis Arias. This is a new
print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in
1904.
Written 1580-90, first published at Seville in 1594, translated
with notes and an introduction. The edition includes a bibliography
of the Canary Islands, 1341-1907, pp. 187-203. Translation of books
I-III, with facsimiles of original t.p. and colophon, of the
author's: Del origen y milagros de la santa imagen de Nuestra
Senora de Candelaria, que aparecio en la isla de Tenerife, con la
descripcion de esta isla ... Sevilla, 1594. The fourth book,
containing a list of sixty-five miracles, is omitted. Also
includes: 'Remnants of the Guanche language' : p. xx-xxvi. 'Report
on the present condition of the image of Our Lady of Candelaria, by
Miss Ethel Trew' : p. [137]-138. 'Bibliography of the Canary
Islands' : p. [139]-201. This is a new print-on-demand hardback
edition of the volume first published in 1907.
Narratives, translated and edited, with a preface, introduction and
notes, of the second voyage through the strait, commanded by the
Comendador Loaysa and SebastiA!n del Cano, 1524-6, the third
voyage, under the command of SimA(3)n de Alcazaba, 1534-5, and the
reconnaissance by Bartolome and Gonzalo de Nodal, 1618-19; with a
fragment relating to the expedition sent by the bishop of Plasencia
under Alonso de Camargo, 1539-41. Contents: Introduction to the
expedition of the comendador Loaysa and Juan Sebastian del
Cano.-List of survivors of the Magellan expedition brought back by
Juan Sebastian del Cano, in the Victoria.-Expedition of the
comendador Loaysa to Maluco.-Narrative of the Loaysa expedition by
Captain Andres de Urdaneta.-Description of the strait of Magellan
by the pilot Martin de Uriarte.-Narrative of the voyage of the
pinnace Santiago.-Narrative of the voyage of Alvarez de Sayavedra
by Vicencio of Naples.-Introduction to the expedition of Simon de
Alcazaba.-Principal officers of Alcazaba's expedition.-Narrative of
the expedition of Simon de Alcazaba by Alonso (Veedor) This is a
new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published
in 1911.
Translation of the Libro del Conoscimiento de todos los reynos.
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first
published in 1912.
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