Landa's Relación de Las Cosas de Yucatan: A Translation

Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co., Millwood, 1966. Later printing. Small quarto with olive boards and gilt spine title; xiii, 394 pages illustrations, frontispiece, maps; index; 27 cm Near fine; slightest edgewear; pages are clean and binding tight. Hardcover.

Notes: Reprint of the 1941 ed. published by the Peabody Museum of American archaeology and ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., which was issued as vol. 18 in the series Harvard University. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Papers. //

Contents: Introduction. Text and notes. Appendices to the text: A: Herrera, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra ferme del mar océano (1601-1615), decada IV, libro X, caps. I-IV. B: Tomás López: Relación (1621), Academia de historia, Madrid, Papeles de Muñoz; tomo 42, cap. XX. C: Gaspar Antonio Chi: Relación; discovered in Archives de Indias de Sevilla by France Scholes, transcribed, translated, and missing portions supplied from Cogulludo, 4, III, IV, by Ralph Roys. D: Cervantes de Salazar, Crónica de la Nueva España, libro segundo, caps. XXV-XXIX. Syllabus: Geography and physiography of Yucatan; Flora; Fauna; Discovery and early voyages; Spanish conquest of Yucatan; Spanish administration; Ecclesiastical history; Linquistics; Native history; Natives outside Yucatan; Archaeology; Hieroglyphic writing; Physical characteristics of Mayas; Utilitarian arts; Aesthetic arts; Sociology; Religion; Rituals. Bibliography. Concordance of pagination of Landa's manuscript with its various publications. Pagination of notes.