Description
- Notes:
- Nouvellement traduite de l'espagnol de Garcillasso-de la Vega. Et mise dans un meilleur ordre; avec des notes & des additions sur l'histoire naturelle de ce pays.
- Volume two has title: Histoire des Incas, with imprint: A Paris, chez Prault fils, Quai de Conti, vis-à-vis la descente de Pont-Neuf, à la Charité. M. DCC. XLIV. [1744]
- Translation of the author's: Primera parte de los Commentarios reales, first printed Lisbon, 1609.
- Translated and edited by Thomas Fraņois Dalibard. cf. Quérard, La France littéraire.
- "De la poësie des Incas", v. 2, p. 55-64, includes a sampling of phrases in the Quechua language translated into French.
- Pagination: v. 1: vxiii [i.e. xxiii], [1], 373, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: xii, 402 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded)
- Signatures: v. 1: a⁸ (a1 verso blank) b⁴ (b4 verso blank) A-Z⁸ 2A⁴ (-2A4) (2A3 verso blank); v. 2: a⁶ (a1 verso blank) A-X⁸ Y² (-Y2) Z-2C⁸
- Includes general index in volume 2, p. 339-402.
- Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
- There is a folded, hand-colored map of the northern part of South America engraved by Philippe Buache bound to face p. [1], 2nd count, in volume 1, and a folded, hand-colored map of the middle part of South America engraved by Philippe Buache bound to face p. [1], 2nd count, in volume 2.
Citation
"Histoire des Incas, rois du Pérou"
(1744).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581329/
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