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Record ID 285089
Begas royal Commentaries of Peru
Borrowed: 1799/11/29 (Friday). Returned: 1800/1/1 (Wednesday).
Mr Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1770. Life dates: 1747-1813.
Occupation (normalised): Arts and Letters > Author. Education > University Professor. Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.
Garcilaso de la Vega (Male, born 1539, died 1616)
Genre: History
The royal commentaries of Peru [Vega]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: E.132.b.4 .
Confidence level: Certain
Garcilaso de la Vega (Male, born 1539, died 1616)
Genre: History
The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts. The first part. Treating of the original of their Incas or kings: of their idolatry: of their laws and government both in peace and war: of the reigns and conquests of the Incas: with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries. The second part. Describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards. Also the civil wars between the Pic̜arrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land. Of the rise and fall of rebels; and other particulars contained in that history.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1688. Format: folio.
Translators: Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700: "[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, introduction to The first part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, v. 1, p. xvi.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: R11046
Garcilaso de la Vega (Male, born 1539, died 1616)
Genre: History
Royal Commentaries of Peru
Record ID 285092
Cooks last Voyage 3 vol 4to
Borrowed: 1799/11/29 (Friday). Returned: 1800/1/1 (Wednesday).
Mr Harry Erskine
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1768. Life dates: 1746-1817.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord Advocate. Law > Dean of Faculty. Politics/Office Holders > MP (Britain).
Cook's Last Voyage, 3 vols, 4to
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3