1. Hortensia Calvo is one of the more important authors writing on the book in early Latin America. Her article in Book History entitled “The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America” is a well written summary of important dates, and the ways in which book history studies in Latin America has differed from Anglo-American approaches and from the French influenced Annales approaches. A fuller citation for this article is forthcoming.

2.The new Johnathan Rose edited book "Companion to the History of the Book" has a good chapter by Hortensia Calvo on the book in Latin America.

3. "Books of the Brave" by Irving Leonard. Try to get the 1992 ed. with an excellent intro by Rolena Adorno.

4. JSTOR has a peek at private (not religious) collections in colonial Peru “The diffusion of books and ideas in colonial Peru: A study in private libraries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” by Teodoro Hampe-Martinez in The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 73 No. 2 (May 1993), pp. 211-233. JSTOR also has an older article from 1985 “The heart has its reasons: prediciments of missionary christianity in early colonial Peru” The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 65, No. 3. (Aug. 1985), pp. 443-466.