[1489] [Oviedo traces Andagoya’s career in vol. iv. p. 126. Cf. Bancroft’s Central America, vol. i. p. 503; Helps, vol. iii. p. 426; and the notice in Pacheco, Coleccion de documentos inéditos, vol. xxxix. p. 552.—Ed.]
[1490] [Verdadera relacion de la Conquista del Peru. There is a copy in the Lenox Library. Cf. Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 198.—Ed.]
[1491] [There are copies in the Lenox and Carter-Brown libraries. Quaritch in 1873 priced it at £35; Cf. Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. 277; Ternaux, no. 54; Carter-Brown, vol. i. no. 146. It is sometimes bound with Oviedo’s Coronica, and F. S. Ellis (1882, no. 221) prices the combined edition at £105. The Huth Catalogue, vol. v. p. 1628, shows an edition, Conquista del Peru, black-letter, without place or date, which Harrisse thinks preceded this 1547 edition. The Huth copy is the only one known.—Ed.]
[1492] [This Italian version (Venetian dialect) was made by Domingo de Gazlelu, and appeared at Venice; and a fac-simile of the title is given here with showing the arms of the emperor. Rich (no. 11) in 1832 priced it at £1 4s.; Quaritch of late years has held it at £5 and £7; F. S. Ellis (1884) at £12, 12s.; and Leclerc (no. 2,998) at 750 francs. There are copies in the Lenox, Harvard College, and Carter-Brown (Catalogue, vol. i. no. 116) libraries. It was reprinted at Milan the same year in an inferior manner, and a copy of this edition is in the British Museum. Cf. Bibl. Amer. Vet., nos. 200, 201; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, p. 818; Huth, p. 1628; Court, no. 376. What is said to be a translation of this Italian version into French, L’histoire de la terre neuve du Peru, Paris, 1545, signed I. G. (Jacques Gohory), purports to be an extract from Oviedo’s Historia, Cf. Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 264; Court Catalogue, no. 175.—Ed.]
[1493] [Vol. iii. p. 378.—Ed.]
[1494] [Voyages, etc., vol. iv. This edition is worth about eight francs. A German edition is recorded as made by Külb at Stuttgard in 1843.—Ed.]
[1495] [Prescott says (Peru, vol. i. p. 385) “Allowing for the partialities incident to a chief actor in the scenes he describes, no authority can rank higher.”—Ed.]
[1496] Chap. xv. lib. 43.
[1497] Paris, 1845, p. 180.
[1498] [Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 109, notes, but not de visu, a plaquette enumerating the treasure sent to Spain by Pizarro in 1534. F. S. Ellis (1884, no. 235) priced at £21 a second copy of the tract mentioned by Harrisse (no. 108) as known only in a copy in a private library in New York, entitled Copey etlicher brieff so auss Hispania Kummen seindt, 1535, which purports to be translated through the French from the Spanish. Ellis pronounces it a version of Harrisse’s no. 109, the only copy known of which was, as he says, lost in a binder’s shop. Cf. the Libro ultimo de le Indie occidentale intitulato nova Castiglia, e del Conquisto del Peru, published at Rome, May, 1535 (Sunderland, vol. i. no. 265). For the effect of Peruvian gold on prices in Europe, see Brevoort’s Verrazano, p. iii.—Ed.]