Description and condition: Beige cloth hardback with blocked design, slipcase, 8vo, 271pp, decorated EPs, index, illustrations. Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In worn slipcase.
Contents: Translated with and introduction by J.M. Cohen. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: A translation of books I to IV of Agustin de Zarates History of these events, supplemented by eye-witness accounts of certain incidents by Francisco de Jerez, Miguel Estete, Juan Ruiz de Arce, Hernando Pizarro, Diego de Trujillo, and Alosno de Guzman, who took part in the conquest, and by Pedro Cieza de Leon, Garcilaso de la Vega the Inca, and Jose de Acesta, later historians who had first hand sources of information. |
