Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks.

  • Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Peruvian antiquities / by Mariano Edward Rivero and John James von Tschudi ; translated by Francis L. Hawks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of these investigations, the want of true translations of the quippus in which were preserved the remarkable events of Peruvian history and the particulars of its statistics, and the immense expense which works of this kind involve, can only be overcome by the joint labors of the learned, and the powerful aid of the government. We will Tiot doubt (to recur to our work) that the Peruvian nation will appreciate our humble toils and our pecuniary sacrifices ; and that they will know how to excuse some slight typographical imper- fections, the unavoidable consequence of printing the book in a city where ^he Spanish .language is a foreign tongufe,* • The original was printed in ’^enna, for the sake, we presume, of Dr. Von Tschudi’s supervision.—[Tkanslator.] '