[Exploration] Lasso de la Vega, Garcia. Histoire des Yncas rois du Perou, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac, fils du soleil, jusqu'a Atahualpa dernier Ynca: ou l'on voit leur etablissement, leur religion, leurs loix, leurs conquetes; les merveilles du Temple du Soleil; & tout l'Etat de ce grand empire, avant que les Espagnols s'en rendissent maitres. Amsterdam, Jean Frederic Bernard, 1737. 2 volumes. 4to. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps (Lacking Map of Peru in Vol. I), 15 plates, half-titles in both volumes, title in red and black, 540 pp., table; 373 pp., table. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine and rule.
This French translation of Lasso de la Vega, son of the Spanish conquistador Sebastian Garcilaso de la Vega and Princess Isabel Chimpu Ocllo, (granddaughter of the last Inca emperor) includes his The Incas of Peru and The Conquest of Florida and adds Hennepin's Discovery of a Country greater than Europe. It is noted for its fine plates after Picart and includes maps of the Mississippi region and Florida. Palau 354803; Sabin 98752.
Condition: Minor rubbing, restoration to joints. Minor toning and occasinal foxing.