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• History of the Incas (Cambridge, UK: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1907), by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, ed. by Clements R. Markham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • transcription without illustrations: Gutenberg text

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• 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
• Viaje de los Padres Misioneros del Convento del Cuzco a las Tribus Salvajes de los Campas, Piros, Cunibos y Sipibos en el Año de 1874 (in Spanish; Lima: Tip. de La Sociedad, 1877), by Luis Sabate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas, ed. by Clements R. Markham (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 volumes; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for C. Wilkinson, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega, trans. by Paul Rycaut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 parts; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for S. Heyrick, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega and Paul Rycaut (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Jorge Coronado (page images at Pitt)

• 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)

• Manco, the Peruvian Chief, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Iquito-English Dictionary (online edition, 2020), by Lev Michael and Christine Beier (illustrated HTML at clld.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)

• Parte Primera de la Crónica del Perú, Que Trata de las Demarcación de sus Provincias: La Descripción Dellas; Las Fundaciones de las Nuevas Ciudades; Los Ritos y Costumbres de los Indios; Y Otras Cosas Extrañas Dignas de Ser Sabidas (only part published around authors lifetime; in Spanish; 1553), by Pedro de Cieza de León (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1883), by Pedro de Cieza de León, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Segunda Parte de la Crónica del Perú, Que Trata del Señorío de los Incas Yupanquis y de Sus Grandes Hechos y Gobernación (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Manuel Gines Hernandez, 1880), by Pedro de Cieza de León, ed. by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTM
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Seventeen Years Travels of Peter De Cieza, Through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the Large Provinces of Cartagena and Popayan in South America: From the City of Panama, on the Isthmus, to the Frontiers of Chile, Now First Translated From the Spanish, and Illustrated With a Map, and Several Cuts (London, 1709), by Pedro de Cieza de León, trans. by John Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Aymara Language in its Social and Cultural Context (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, c1981), ed. by Martha James Hardman (page images at Florida)

• 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)

• The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Jorge Coronado (page images at Pitt)

• Introduction to Peruvian Costume (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, c1949), by Nathalie Herman Zimmern (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C-A.D. 200 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995), by Mary Frame (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 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)

• Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C-A.D. 200 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995), by Mary Frame (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 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)

• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 volumes; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for C. Wilkinson, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega, trans. by Paul Rycaut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 parts; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for S. Heyrick, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega and Paul Rycaut (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009), by Jorge Coronado (page images at Pitt)

• Revolution in Peru (1985), by Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Revolution in Peru (1985), by Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of Martín de Murúa's Historia General del Piru, J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2008), ed. by Tom Cummins and Barbara Anderson (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• History of the Conquest of Peru (without footnotes), by William Hickling Prescott (Gutenberg text)
• History of the Conquest of Peru (with footnotes), by William Hickling Prescott (Gutenberg text)
• History of the Conquest of Peru; With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., c1847), by William Hickling Prescott (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Conquest of Peru; With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1848), by William Hickling Prescott
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Peru and Spain, Second Period of the War: Official Documents, 8th March, 1866 (New York: W. C. Bryant and Co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of Martín de Murúa's Historia General del Piru, J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2008), ed. by Tom Cummins and Barbara Anderson (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• History of the Incas (Cambridge, UK: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1907), by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, ed. by Clements R. Markham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • transcription without illustrations: Gutenberg text
• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 volumes; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for C. Wilkinson, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega, trans. by Paul Rycaut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts (abridged approximate translation, 2 parts; London: Printed by M. Flesher, for S. Heyrick, 1688), by Garcilaso de la Vega and Paul Rycaut (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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

• Il Conflitto del Pacifico: Perù e Cile (in Italian; Rome: Tip. Squarci, 1919), by Giuseppe Maria Perrone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by Jeffrey Middents (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

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