Latin American Primary Documents in English

Exploration and Conquest

Hesburgh Library General Collection G 161 .H127 no.60-61
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.
The natural & moral history of the Indies,  by Father Joseph de Acosta.
Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimestone, 1604. And ed., with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham.   [Boston, Mass.]:  Elibron Classics,  [2002]

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection E 111 .C383 2001
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
Las Casas on Columbus : the third voyage / editor, Geoffrey Symcox ; textual editor, Jesús Carrillo ; translators, Michael Hammer, Blair Sullivan.
Turnhout : Brepols, 2001.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1411 .C4276 1999
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.
Las Casas on Columbus : background and the second and fourth voyages / Nigel Griffin, editor and translator ; introduction by Anthony Pagden.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 1999.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 3442 .C66313 1998
Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1554.
The discovery and conquest of Peru :  chronicles of the New World encounter /  Pedro de Cieza de León ; edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. 
Durham [N.C.] :  Duke University Press,  1998.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1410 .C725 2000
Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850. Boyer, Richard G. and Spurling, Geoffrey, editors.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Microforms (Lower Level) Hesburgh Library
Columbus, Christopher.
Notes on Columbus.
New York,  Priv. print.  [Cambridge,  Riverside press]  1866. Ambrosian text of Columbus' letter to Santangel, with English translation at foot of page, p. 89-100; Latin letter to Sanchez, from the "1st" Planck edition, p. 101-108.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1230 .C818 A3L En36
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547. 
Fernando Cortes; his five letters of relation to the Emperor Charles V;  tr. and ed. with a biographical introd. and notes comp. from original sources by F. A. MacNutt.
Cleveland, Clark,  [c1908].

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F1411 .I18 1984
New Iberian World.
5 volumes. Translated Hispanic documents from the exploration and conquest of the new world.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1909 .P3613 1999
Pané, Ramón, d. 1571. 
An account of the antiquities of the Indians :  chronicles of the New World encounter   /  Ramón Pané. 
Durham [N.C.] :  Duke University Press,  1999.

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1230 .L579
León Portilla, Miguel, 
The broken spears;  the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico. 
Boston, Beacon Press  [1962]

 

Hesburgh Library General Collection E 125 .V5 A3 1992
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512. 
Letters from a new world :  Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America / edited and with an introduction by Luciano Formisano ; foreword by Garry Wills ; translated by David Jacobson.
New York :  Marsilio,  c1992.
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