INTRODUCTION. 



What was begun in 1893 as a labor of love, has been brought to 

 a finish amid difficulties and the stress of work attendant upon new 

 fields of investigation. 



While pursuing a special course of study in the Graduate Depart- 

 ment of Harvard University, in 1893-94, I began to form a card cat- 

 alogue of the more important books which treat of the antiquities 

 of Peru. This was done merely for my own benefit and to aid me in 

 the particular line of investigation with which at that time I was 

 occupied. Such a catalogue seemed all the more necessary to me, as 

 I could find no list of books of any value which related to Peru, and 

 my studies led me into all the many interesting problems for which 

 that country is so justly famous. 



It soon became apparent that the work of making anything like 

 a complete list of books which relate to the Anthropology of Peru 

 would be long and laborious, and at one time I decided to abandon 

 the idea; but with the kindly advice of Dr. Winsor and the cordial 

 assistance of Mr. Kiernan, both of the Harvard Library, I took hold 

 of the work anew, and set out with the deliberate intention of making 

 a complete list of all the books, pamphlets and magazine articles 

 which related in any way to the anthropology of Peru. The aim has 

 been to cover the whole ground, and from the earliest times down to 

 the present day, to include such works as treat of the modern 

 Indians as well of the Peruvians of ancient times, and finally to 

 include all known editions of the early Spanish authorities. To what 

 extent the list here presented falls short of this high aim no one 

 knows so fully as I do. Although having at my command the exten- 

 sive libraries of Harvard and Boston, yet for many titles I have had 

 to refer to the catalogue of the British Museum Library, and to those 

 of Sabine, Harisse, Quaritch, Dufosse, Hierseman, Winsor, etc. 



On account of the additional interest which is imparted to a book 

 when something is known of the author, I have given short biograph- 

 ical sketches of about fifty of the more important authors of the early 

 Spanish times. Indeed, with many of these early writers the very 



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