📚 The Incas

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Empire of the four quarters: roads without the wheel, records in knotted string, and the accounting of the conquest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject incas in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Inca Land	Hiram Bingham	1922	34
The royal hunt of the sun	Peter Shaffer	1964	18
Primer nueva coronica i buen gobierno	Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala	1936	14
The Last Days of the Incas	Kim MacQuarrie	2007	10
History of the conquest of Peru	William Hickling Prescott	1864	9
The Incas	Garcilaso de la Vega	1961	9
Code of the Quipu	Marcia Ascher	1978	9
Peru under the Incas	Cottie Arthur Burland	1967	7
The Incas	Terence N. D'Altroy	2004	7
Atahuallpa	Benjamín Carrión	1939	6
Machu Picchu	Johan Reinhard	1991	6
The Incas of Peru	Sir Clements R. Markham	1912	5
Los últimos incas del Cuzco	Franklin Pease G. Y.	1972	5
Content Analysis	Klaus Krippendorff	1980	5
Inca town	Fiona MacDonald	1998	5
The lost tomb of Viracocha	Maurice Cotterell	2001	5
The Inca	Sunita Apte	2008	5
Obras de Garcilaso de la Vega	Vega, Garcilaso de la	1796	4
Realm of the Incas	Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	1957	4
Machu Picchu	Hermann Buse de la Guerra	1961	4
The Incas	Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	1961	4
Las crónicas y los Andes	Franklin Pease G. Y.	1995	4
Lost Treasure of the Inca	Peter Lourie	1999	4
The Inca	Sonia Bleeker	1960	3
Incas	Alfred Métraux	1965	3
Estructuras andinas del poder	María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco	1983	3
Astronomy and empire in the ancient Andes	Brian S. Bauer	1995	3
Incas	David West	2016	3
Life Among the Inca	Rachel Stuckey	2016	3
Where is Machu Picchu?	Megan Stine	2018	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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