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• The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Lewis Spence (Gutenberg text)
• The Myths of Mexico and Peru (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1913), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Gilbert James and William Sewell
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • with fewer illustrations: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Myths of Mexico and Peru (c1913), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Gilbert James and William Sewell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent (1882), by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
• The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America (New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1868), by Daniel G. Brinton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs: A California Indian Reader (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Herbert W. Luthin (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Mythology of All Races: Latin-American (v11 of a 13-volume global mythology series; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1920), by Hartley Burr Alexander, ed. by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mythology of All Races: Latin-American (v11 of a 13-volume global mythology series; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1920), by Hartley Burr Alexander, ed. by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Lewis Spence (Gutenberg text)
• The Myths of Mexico and Peru (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1913), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Gilbert James and William Sewell
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • with fewer illustrations: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Myths of Mexico and Peru (c1913), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Gilbert James and William Sewell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-Lore and History (Philadelphia: MacCalla and Company, 1894), by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-Lore and History (Philadelphia: MacCalla and Company, 1894), by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Creation Myths of Primitive America, by Jeremiah Curtin (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Literary Aspects of North American Mythology (Canada Geological Survey Museum Bulletin #16; Ottawa: Government Printing Burea, 1915), by Paul Radin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mythology of All Races: North American (v10 of a 13-volume global mythology series; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1916), by Hartley Burr Alexander, ed. by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Myths of the North American Indians (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1914), by Lewis Spence, illust. by James Jack (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Myths of the North American Indians (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., ca. 1914), by Lewis Spence, illust. by James Jack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Indian Nature Myths (Chicago: A. Flanagan Co., 1924), by Julia Darrow Cowles, illust. by Dorothy Dulin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soul of the Indian, by Charles A. Eastman (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Chinigchinich: A Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians at the Missionary Establishment of St. Juan Capistrano, Alta-California, by Gerónimo Boscana, trans. by Alfred Robinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians (extract from the 30th annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1915), by Walter E. Roth
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mythology of All Races: Latin-American (v11 of a 13-volume global mythology series; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1920), by Hartley Burr Alexander, ed. by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas, ed. by Clements R. Markham (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Tales From Silver Lands (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page and Co., c1924), by Charles Joseph Finger, illust. by Paul Honoré (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peru: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1993), ed. by Rex A. Hudson (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Old and the New Peru: A Story of the Ancient Inheritance and the Modern Growth and Enterprise of a Great Nation (Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons; et al., ca. 1908), by Marie Robinson Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1968), by Alan R. Sawyer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Peru Illustrated: or, Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Hurst and Co., c1877), by E. G. Squier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1877), by E. G. Squier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas, ed. by Clements R. Markham (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru: A Contribution to Our Knowledge of the Culture and Industries of the Empire of the Incas, Being the Results of Excavations Made on the Spot (3 volumes; Berlin: A. Asher and Co.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1880-1887), by W. Reiss and Alphons Stübel, trans. by A. H. Keane, contrib. by Ludwig Wittmack, Rudolf Virchow, and Alfred Nehring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peruvian Antiquities (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1855), by Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz and Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Francis L. Hawks
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, by Hiram Bingham
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• El Uso de las Cabezas Humanas Artificialmente Momificadas y su Representación en el Antiguo Arte Peruano (doctoral thesis in Spanish; Lima: E. R. Villaran, ca. 1918), by Julio C. Tello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Peruvians of To-Day (Lima, Peru: Printed at the Southwell Press, 1919), ed. by William Belmont Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Informe Sobre las Colonias de Oxapampa y Pozuzo y los Rios Palcazu y Pichis (in Spanish; Lima: Imp. Liberal union, 1904), by Augusto E. Tamayo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, by Hiram Bingham
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Pérégrinations d'une Paria (1833-1834) (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838), by Flora Tristan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise: Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1913), by W. E. Hardenburg, ed. by C. Reginald Enock, contrib. by Roger Casement
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia, Including the Conquest of Huascarán; With Some Observations on the Country and People Below (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Annie S. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (London: D. Bogue, ca. 1847), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (new edition; New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (new edition; New York: A.S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across Unknown South America (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oasis de Arte (in Spanish; Paris: Casa Editorial Garnier Hermanos, ca. 1910), by Zoila Aurora Cáceres, contrib. by Rubén Darío (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peru Illustrated: or, Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Hurst and Co., c1877), by E. G. Squier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1877), by E. G. Squier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850, by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at MOA)

• Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's "Fictitious Prosperity" of Guano, 1840-1880 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Paul Gootenberg (HTML at UC Press)

• Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's "Fictitious Prosperity" of Guano, 1840-1880 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Paul Gootenberg (HTML at UC Press)

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