CONRAD LOEW. "Meer oder See-Ansicht Buch." Cologne, 1598.
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER. "Cosmographey," 1575, &c.
ANDRÉ THEVET. "Les singularites de la France antarctique, autrement nommé Amérique, et de plusieurs Terres et Isles decouvertes de notre temps."--Paris, 1558; Antwerp, 1558; in Italian, at Venice, 1561.
I forbear further mention of the polemic works on the origin of the American Indians,--and now turn to some writers whose works are probably lost, or at least not accessible, although there is positive evidence of their former existence.
FRAY GERÓNIMO ROMAN. "Republica Indiana"--certainly existed as late as 1630, or "República de las Indias Occidentales."
FRAY ALONZO SOLANA. "Noticias Sagradas y profanas de las Antigüedades y Conversion de los Indios de Yucatan." (Written before 1600).
DON FRANCISCO MONTEJO. "Carta al Rey sobre la fundacion de la Villa de San Francisco de Campeche, y de la Ciudad de Mérida," 14 June, 1543. (Still at Sevilla, leg. 7. "Cartas de Indias").
In the above list I have not included any Grammar, Vocabulary, Sermonary, "Doctrina," &c., &c., for the use of the Indians of Yucatan, or written in the Maya language, of which several are known. In conclusion, I beg to add the Maya writing, entitled:
"SERIES OF KATUNES," published, with an English translation, by Mr. J. L. Stephens, in "Incidents of travels in Yucatan," and by Brasseur de Bourbourg, in "Rel. d. ch. de Y."
ANTONIO DE HERRERA. "Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y la Tierra firme del mar Océano," Madrid, 1601, 1615, 4 vols. folio. There are two other editions in the original language: Madrid, 1726 and 1730, and Antwerp, 1728.
Of this most important book, several translations have appeared, embodying either the whole or only a part.--Thus a French translation of the "Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales," appeared at Amsterdam in 1622 twice, and a French translation of the 1st, 2d and 3d Decades, at Paris, 1671.--A Latin version of the "Descripcion" was also published in 1622, by Colin, at Amsterdam, and a very unreliable English rendering by John Stephens, in 6 vols. 8^o, appeared at London in 1725. Herrera is one of the most important authorities on every subject of which he treats.