Note 12 — Chapter II · EARLY WRITERS OF TIERRA FIRME
Reading edition
Historia general y natural de las Indias, cap. XXIII. A complete edition of the Historia general work was issued by the Royal Academy of History in Madrid in 1851. The Sumario is included in the first volume of Historiadores primitivos de las Indias, Madrid, 1849. An important account of Oviedo is found in Vida y escritos de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, by José Amador de los Ríos, prefixed to the Academy’s edition of Oviedo’s Historia general. Reference may also be made to Barros Arana’s Obras completas, VIII, 3-11. See also Harrisse, Biblioteca americana vetustísima, 340.