LASSO DE LA VEGA, GARCIA LA FLORIDA DEL INCA. HISTORIA DEL ADELANTADO HERNANDO DE SOTO

LASSO DE LA VEGA, GARCIA LA FLORIDA DEL INCA. HISTORIA DEL ADELANTADO HERNANDO DE SOTO, Governador, y Capitan General del Reino de Florida y de otros heroicos caballeros, Espanoles, e Indios. Madrid: Oficina real por Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723. Third edition, folio, title page in red and black, contemporary limp vellum, with insect holes, lacking free endpapers at the front, single worm holes through the first few signatures, book plates of Charles Crofton-Atkins, Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt., and Brian Fawcett Note: First published in 1615 and regarded as an important primary source for the history of the period, Garcia Lasso de la Vega, a half-Incan historian, obtained a great portion of material contained in this work directly from a member of De Soto's ill-fated expedition, as well as from two manuscripts of unquestioned authority written by two other members of the expedition.