Although (as noted in the following sub-section) the greater part of the print-run of the first edition was said to have been lost in a shipwreck, the "Monarquía indiana" was known in Mexico as early as 1624 when it was first cited in a book published there in that year. Between then and 1714 (that is to say, before the second edition) it was cited, even copiously on occasion, by at least eleven authors in works published for the most part in Mexico, but also in Madrid and Guatemala.