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Collection of rare and original documents and relations, concerning the discovery and conquest of America, Chiefly from the Spanish archives. No. 1 / Published in the original, with translations, illustrative notes, maps, and biographical sketches, by E.G. Squier ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Central America.
- America--Early accounts to 1600.
- America.
- El Salvador--Description and travel.
- El Salvador.
- Copán Site (Honduras)--Antiquities.
- Copán Site (Honduras).
- Physical Description:
- 1 preliminary leaf, 129 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : folded map. ; 22 x 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. B. Norton, 1860.
- Contents:
- no. 1 Carta dirijida al rey de España, por el licenciado dr. don Diego Garcia de Palacio ... año 1576. Being a description of the ancient provinces of Guazacapan, Izalco, Cuscatlan, and Chiquimula, in the audencia of Guatemala: with an account of the languages, customs and religion of their aboriginal inhabitants, and a description of the ruins of Copan.
- Notes:
- Spanish and English on opposite pages.
- Biographical note of Don Diego Garcia de Palacio": p. [13]-16.
- No more published.
- One hundred copies printed on small and ten on large paper. cf. Sabin. Bibl. amer., no. 58270.
- Text "is now for the first time published from the original Spanish. It is from a manuscript copy made by the historical Nuñoz, and preserved in the Royal academy of history at Madrid."--p. [3].
- OCLC:
- 25975855
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