RELACION DEL VIAGE, QUE POR ORDEN DE SU MAGESTAD, Y ACUERDO DE EL REAL CONSEJO DE INDIAS, HICIERON LOS CAPITANES...AL DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL ESTRECHO NUEVO DE SAN VICENTE...Y RECONOCIMIENTO DEL DE MAGALLANES.
Nodal, Bartholome Garcia de and Gonzalo de:
Cadiz: Manučl Espinosa de los Monteros, Impressor de la Real Marina, [1766]. [18],160,159-162,[2]pp. plus folding engraved map. [bound with, as issued:] Echevelar, Manual de: ...INSTRUCCION EXACTA, Y UTIL DE LAS DERROTAS, Y NAVEGACIONES, QUE SE EXECUTAN EN TODOS TIEMPOS EN LA AMERICA SEPTENTRIONAL, DE UNOS PUERTOS Ą OTROS: CON LAS ADVERTENCIAS DE SONDAS, Y NOTAS, PARA PONERLAS EN PRĄCTICA. SACALA LA LUZ...1753. Cadiz: Real Imprenta de Marina, [1766]. 41,[2]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, lacks ties. Small (1 x 1/2-inch) hole through vellum near top of spine. Contemporary inscriptions on front free endpaper and titlepage. Map slightly age-toned. Occasional minor foxing and dampstaining. Leaves of second text with minor stains in upper foremargin. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. The second edition, reprinted from the extremely rare first edition printed in Madrid in 1621. Borba de Moraes describes the first edition as "one of the rarest travel books of the seventeenth century." The map depicting the Straits of Magellan is believed to have been originally suppressed by the Spanish, and Sabin claims that it is always lacking in the first edition. This map is not a copy of that in the first edition, but was newly engraved and is smaller than the original. An account of one of the most important Spanish voyages, which included the circumnavigation of Tierra del Fuego and the Straights of Magellan in 1619. The Nodal brothers were commissioned by the Spanish government to explore the newly discovered Straits of Magellan. The expedition was orchestrated by the government of the United Kingdom of Spain and Portugal, and the crew was composed entirely of Portuguese prisoners or men pressed into service, as it would have been extremely difficult to recruit volunteers for such a perilous journey. The work contains an excellent description of the natives of Tierra del Fuego in the early 1600s and the earliest printed account of the Onas of Good Success Bay. Bound with this second edition of the Nodal brothers' account, as issued, is the ...DERROTAS..., or instructions for navigation within the Americas. First issued separately in 1753, it is an integral part of this edition of the RELACION... and is called for on the titlepage. This manual provides instructions for sailing between different ports at different times of the year. SABIN 55395, 55396. BORBA DE MORAES, p.616. HILL 1231 (1st ed). MEDINA (BHA) 3611. MEDINA (HISPANO-CHILENA) 468. PALAU 99486. JCB MARITIME HAND-LIST 375 (1753 Echevelar only).
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