[Vega, Garcilasso de la (1539-1616), "El Inca".

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Description

Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y govierno en paz y en guerra. Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 (1608)], folio (250 x 178mm.), ff. [10], 264, lacking title-page and engraved plate, final leaf (with colophon on verso) rebacked with partial loss of 12 lines of text (supplied in manuscript), repairs in lower margins of penultimate 6 leaves, light water-staining in last few leaves

Ibid. Historia general del Peru trata el descubrimiento del, y como lo ganaron los españoles. Cordova: la vuida de Andres Barrera, 1617, folio (264 x 190mm.), ff. [8], 300, [6], illustration: woodcut of the Virgin on title-page, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, title-page cropped at foot with loss of imprint, title-page backed at fore-edge, occasional small wormholes, short tears and stains in text, some headlines and signatures trimmed

together 2 volumes, folio, binding: bound uniformly and to size in nineteenth-century half calf

Literature

Palau 354788 & 354789; Sabin 98757 & 98755

Catalogue Note

first edition of garcilasso de la vega's monumental history of peru. Born in Cusco, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess, Vega went to Spain in 1560 to be educated, but following the execution of Tupac Amaru in 1572 was never able to return to his native land. The first volume of his history of Peru contains the origins and rise of the Inca empire and is based both on his own childhood memories and accounts sent to him by native friends. The second volume contains the history of Peru from the arrival of the Spanish until the end of the sixteenth century. The two volumes clearly illustrated the contrast between the orderly Inca empire as depicted in the first and the violence of colonial Peru as depicted in the second.