Biblioteca andina. T. 1, The chroniclers, or, The writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who treated of the pre-Hispanic history and culture of the Andean countries. / by Philip Ainsworth Means.

Philip Ainsworth Means

Date:: [1928]-

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Gomara’s book and soon thereafter he retired into very private life. He died between 1557 and 1566.2 The editions of Lopez, in several languages, are very numerous. Inasmuch as they have lately been carefully described by Mr. Henry Wagner,3 there is no need for me to cite here more than a few of them, in every case drawing upon materials provided by Mr. Wagner, to whom my thanks. Some of the early editions, then, are as follows: 1552 La istoria de las Indias,/ y conquista de Mexico. Saragossa, Agustin Millan. Folio. The Colophon states that printing was finished on Christmas Eve, 1552. The Royal privilege accompanying the work is dated at Monzon, October 7, 1552, and was granted by Prince Philip as Governor-general of Aragon for a period of ten years. Mr. Wagner states that a map of the New World should go with this edition but that the two copies seen by him, those in the National Library in Madrid and in the British Museum, lack it. He him¬ self has a perfect copy, which is the only one in these United States so far as he knows. 1553 Primera y segunda parte de la his-/ toria general de las Indias. . . Really a re-issue of the 1552 edition, and by the same printer, but at the cost of Miguel Capila, bookseller. Of this issue the John Carter Brown Library has a copy. 1553b Hispania Victrix/ Primera y segvnda Par/ te de la historia general de las Indias. . . Medina del Campo, Guillermo de Millis. Folio. Colophon states that printing was finished on August 20th, 1553. There are no maps in this edition. Copies of it are found in the John Carter Brown Library, in the Library of Congress, and in the New York Public Library. There were at least three editions, all of them in octavo, brought out at Antwerp in 1554 by three printers or publishers, namely, 2 The best account of Lopez de Gomara’s life is that of R. B. Merriman in his edition of Lopez’s Annals of Charles V, Oxford, 1912. See also: Leon Pinelo, I, column 589. Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, I, pp. 259-276. Mendiburu, IV, pp. 143-144. Wagner, Henry R.: 1924 Francisco Lopez de Gomara. Berkeley, California. Alcedo states that he was born in Seville. 3 Wagner, 1924.

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