The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de Leon Vintage First Edition Illustrated Hardcover with Maps in Original Dust Jacket 1959

The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de Leon Vintage First Edition Illustrated Hardcover with Maps in Original Dust Jacket 1959

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, previous owners name inside front cover, dust jacket has chips/rips)


—This book contains the firsthand account of what Cieza de Leon witnessed of the Inca throughout the time of the Spanish conquest, during the early 1500s. Much of this is a recording of the Incan oral history at the time of the conquest. They had certain members of their society whose main job was solely to remember and passing down their history. For a culture that's often shrouded in mystery, it's remarkable how much detail is contained in these pages, about their history and culture, even going into detail about under which rulers various sites were built. ***from a review

*From the Dust Jacket—>More than four hundred years ago, Pedro de Cieza de León set out to conduct the readers of his time— and of subsequent generations—over the Royal Road of the Incas. His chronicles of Peru, published in 1553 and 1880, rank with Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of the conquest of Mexico.

While previous English translations have been much abridged, and for many years unavailable, this translation of the Inca materials by Harriet de Onís is not only accurate but possesses a superb literary quality of its own. Victor W. von Hagen skillfully interjoined Cieza’s two chronicles to read as one, in order to bring “Cieza together with himself after four hundred years of excision.”

As a boy of thirteen, Cieza arrived in Cartagena in 1535 and traveled through South America for the next seventeen years, observing the country and its peoples and preserving the achievements of Inca civilization, even as it was being destroyed. Cieza was no fine scholar recording the conquest, but wrote that he “saw strange and wonderful things that exist in this New World of the Indies, and there came over me a great desire to write certain of them.” And write them he did.

The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon by Pedro De Cieza De Leon, Translated By Harriett De Onis, Edited By Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

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