| Author | García de Palacio, Diego, fl. 1576-1587.
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| Title | Carta dirijida al rey de Espana, por el licenciado Dr. Don Diego Garcia de Palacio ... ano 1576. Being a description of the ancient provinces of Guazacapan, Izalco, Cuscatian, and Chicuimula, in the audiencia of Guatemala: with an account of the languages, customs and religion of their aboriginal inhabitants, and a description of the ruins of Copan.
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| Published | [New York] C. B. Norton, agent for libraries, 1860
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| Description | 2 p. l., [3]-129. [3] p. front. (fold. map) 22 cm.
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| Series | Collection of rare and original documents and relations, concerning the discovery and conquest of America ... no. I. Pub. ... by E. G. Squier
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| General Note | Spanish and English on opposite pages.
"Now for the first time published in the original Spanish. It is from a manuscript copy made by the historian Munoz, and preserved in the Royal academy of history at Madrid."-- p. [3]
Another issue has imprint (on series t.-p.): Albany, J. Munsell, 1860.
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| Subjects | America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Copán (Honduras) -- Antiquities.
Indians of Central america.
El Salvador -- Description and travel.
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| LC Card Number | 05-19367 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 141 P153
mq141041: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 78084] |
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