| Uniform title | Comentarios reales de los incas. English |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy has pages misbound: 906-911-912-907. |
| General note | Translation of: Comentarios reales de los Incas, part 1 of which was first printed at Lisbon in 1609, with colophon dated 1608 and part 2 of which was first printed at Cordova in 1616. |
| General note | "[Rycaut] had a very slight knowledge of the Spanish language and he did not scruple to make wild guesses at the meaning of sentences, and to omit whole chapters. Thus he only gives fourteen out the twenty-six chapters in the first book, and sixteen out of the twenty-six in the second."--C.S. Markham's introduction to The first part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, volume 1, page xvi. |
| General note | One of four issues of this edition. In this one, line13 of title reads: "The scond part." There are two issues of printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Tonson in the same year; this one has imprint reading "Richard Tonson within Gray's-Inn-Gate next Gray's-Inn-Lane"; the other has imprint reading "Richard Tonson at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Gray's-Inn-Lane". |
| General note | "The second part of The general history of Peru ...", pages [1-2], 417-1019, has divisional title page on 3G4; 3G3 is blank. |
| General note | Signatures: A⁴ B² C-3G⁴ (2A4, 2I4, 2Y2, 3G3 versos blank) 3H-6N⁴ (3Q4, 6H4 versos blank) 6O² (6O2 verso blank) *² **². |
| General note | Errors in paging: page 48 misnumbered 84; page 535 misnumbered 527. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Date in roman numerals. |
| General note | Title page printed in red and black; title printed within double rule border. |
| General note | With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the translator. |
| References |
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 354799n |
| References |
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), G214 |
| References |
European Americana, 688/104 |
| References |
English short title catalogue, R34862 |
| References |
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 98760 |
| References |
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, short-title list of additions, books printed 1471-1700, 1675-1700, p. 190 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy purchased from William Reese, 5/5/2023 |
| Genre/form | History. |
