GARCILASO DE LA VEGA

Second French edition bringing together these two texts by Garcilaso de la Vega first published in Spanish in 1650. Frontispiece depicting in the foreground the landing of Spanish troops on American territory and in the background the indigenous population besieged in the heart of a burning city. In the lower section, a banner bears the inscription "Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri sacra fames", taken from Virgil's Aeneid and translated by Molière as "O execrable hunger for gold, to what lengths do you not force men's hearts to go". Work decorated with headpieces and historiated initials.
Contemporary full vellum binding, smooth spine decorated at head with a pen-a

VEGA Garcilaso de la
Le Commentaire royal ou l'Histoire des yncas, roys du Peru
Chez Augustin Courbé, Paris 1633, in-4 (16 x 23 cm), (2 f.) (44 p.) 1319 pp. (32 p.) (1 f.), contemporary vellum
First French translation by Jean Baudoin, following the original Spanish, which was published in 1609 in Lisbon. This translation is only of the first part of the Commentaire royal; the second has apparently never been translated. The frontispiece shows a Peruvian city in the upper portion, most likely Cuzco, with a procession celebrating the various forces of nature. In the lower portion are two Incas, named as Manco Capac and Mama Occlo, frami