"CARTAS DE INDIAS." Vol. I. Madrid, 1878.
These contain several letters and reports on Yucatan, from the 16th century. I only refer to one, a complaint of four Indian "gobernadores," dated 12 April, 1567, against the Bishop Diego de Landa, designating him as "principal author of all these evils and troubles...."
JOSEPH DE ACOSTA. "Historia natural y moral de Indias," Sevilla, 1590. I merely mention this author, without entering into further bibliographical details about his work. It has been translated into many languages, and--in part or wholly--incorporated in many general collections of "Americana." He says but little about Yucatan, still his book is indispensable to any one studying Yucatecan antiquities. I also advert here to his former publication, which is but little known: "De promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros, sive de procuranda Indorum salute," Libros 6; printed in 1589.
GERÓNIMO DE MENDIETA. "Historia ecclesiástica Indiana," written about 1590, but printed for the first time, by Sr. J. G. Icazbalceta, at Mexico, in 1870--Contains much and valuable information.--Mendieta has been extensively copied by Torquemada.
FRAY TORIBIO DE PAREDES, SURNAMED "MOTOLINIA." "Historia de los Indios de Nueva-España," written about 1540, but published in full only by Sr. Icazbalceta in Vol. I. of "Coleccion de Documentos, &c."--Mentions Yucatan incidentally.--A large part of the work had been printed before in the "Documentos inéditos, &c." under the title of "Ritos Antiguos, Sacrificios é Idolatrias de las Indias de la Nueva-España,"--also in Vol. IX. of Lord Kingsborough.--A Latin version, under the title of "De Moribus Indorum" may have existed once.
Yucatan is, furthermore, mentioned in many works of a more general character, embodying information gathered mostly from the sources already referred to. I do not, therefore, enter into any lengthy bibliographical sketches of them.
SIMON GRYNAEUS. "Novus Orbis," 1532. Already noticed under Petrus Martyr.
PETRUS APIANUS. "Cosmographia," 1539, 1545, 1561 (Dutch version), &c.
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS. "Theatrum orbis terrarum," 1571, 1588, &c.
THOMASO PORCACCHI. "L'isole pio famose del Mondo," 1572, 1576, 1590, &c., &c.
G. MERCATOR. "Atlas, six Cosmographical Meditations." Duisburg, 1594.