CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Jay I. Kislak Foundation	Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), Histoire des Yncas, Rois du Perou... Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1737.
By the 18th century, Garcilaso's work had been appropriated by European printers as another curiousity of the New World. The titillating frontispiece to this 18th century French edition is by Bernard Picard.

[See also in this exhibition, Picard's Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses...]

Other pages from this French edition

Print and Native Cultures

• Print as a (Re)source for Native Cultures
• Oral Cultures in Print
• [Return to] Native Writing

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