same year) as distinguished from that which had been, through the Dutch India Company's jealousy of Le Maire, published by Blaeu under the name of Cornelius Schouten, who had commanded one of Le Maire's vessels. It concludes with the Spanish and English voyages to Magellan's Straits and the descriptions of America given by Ordoñez de Cevallos and Bertius. The portrait of Le Maire is not mentioned by Brunet, Graesse, Leclerc, or in the "Nuggets," and I find no record of any copy containing it. The last four pages of the first Part contain a Vocabulary of the language of the Solomon Isles. 28323 HERRERA. Histoire Generale des Voyages et Conquestes des This translation includes only the first three decades. 28324 LOEW (Conrad) MEER oder SEEHANEN BUCH, darinn verzeichnet seind die Wunderbare Gedenckwürdige Reyse und Schiffahrten so.. inwendig den letst vergangnen hundert Jahren gethan, durch welche Schiffarten ein Newe Welt gegen Nidergang, und grosse Königreichen.. gegen Auffgang. gelegen, erfunden und entdeckt seind, small folio, 3 folding maps, one of the Dutch discoveries near Nova Zembla in 1595-96, the second a world-map on a flat-plan, and the third a map of the Northern World with the Arctic pole for centre, red morocco extra, gilt edges, £9. Colln, 1598 28325 LOPEZ DE GOMARA (Francisco) Primera y segunda parte de la historia general de las Indias con todo el descubrimiento y cosas notables que han acaecido dende que se ganaron asta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico y de la nueva España, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, Editio Princeps, with two full-page woodcut Maps, one of which contains America, large copy in old gilt tree-marbled calf, with the book-plate" Soi de Francisco Carter," EXTREMELY RARE, £75. Caragoça, Agustin Millan, 1552-53 28326 Historia General de las Indias, with the Two MAPS, Caragoça 1552-53 CIECA DE LEON (Pedro de) Parte Primera de la chronica del Peru, que tracta la demarcacion de sus provincias la descripcion dellas. Las fundaciones de las nuevas ciudades. Los ritos y costumbres de los indios. Y otras cosas estrañas dignas de ser sabidas, numerous woodcuts, Sevilla, Martin de Montesdoca, 1553; together 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, fine clean copies, old calf gilt, EXTREMELY RARE, £110. 1552-53 It is a great historical work, indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America after the conquest, notwithstanding the charges made by Bernal Diaz against Gomara of occasional inaccuracy. The dedication to Charles V begins with these remarkable words: "The greatest event which has happened since the creation of the world (leaving aside the incarnation and death of Him who created it) is the discovery of the Indies." Gomara prefixes a curious address to intending translators, warning them to be accurate and to measure the full significance of the pregnant Spanish phrases, also to pay special attention to proper names. He further declares that he is writing the book in Latin, so that the translators may take no trouble in that. language. His Latin version has never appeared. THE TWO WOODCUT LEAVES PRECEDING THE TEXT, CONTAINING MAPS, ONE OF THE WESTERN AND THE OTHER OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE, SEEM TO HAVE SURVIVED ONLY IN THESE TWO COPIES, yet the book is imperfect without them; and the author in his address " a los Impresores," by whom he meant future reprinters of his work, begged them to omit nothing which he had taken care to insert in this original edition, maiormente las tablas de la tierra. It was this warning which induced Bellero in Antwerp to issue a small Traça dela Tierra with his edition of 1554, but that is also a rare map now. The difference between Bellero's map and Gomara's proves that the Spanish Government had effectually suppressed the latter, and that the Antwerp publisher was obliged to have a new design prepared, which is in some respects decidedly inferior to the original in geographical accuracy. The The Chronica del Peru (First Edition) of Cieça de Leon is also extremely rare. During the last thirty years I have only met with one other copy, and that an imperfect one. translator of this work for the Hakluyt Society says in his preface, that of this edition Lord Stewart de Rothsay's copy was the only one known to him. See also under Discovery of Peru post. 28327 LOPEZ DE GOMARA. LA SEGUNDA PARTE dela Historia general delas Indias, que contiene La conquista de Mexico, y dela nueua España, stout 12mo. old calf, RARE, £5. 28328 en Anuers por Martin Nucio, 1554 It is very seldom that the two parts, which form the complete work, are found together. The second part is the rarer. Historia de las Conquistas de HERNAN CORTES, traducida al Mexicano por Chimalpain, publicala con varias notas y adiciones BUSTAMANTE, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. bd. 36s Mexico, 1826 The statement on the title of "translated by Chimalpain" is merely parenthetical. Bustamante when he had in his hands the MS. from which he printed the book, supposed it to be an original work by Chimalpain, but afterwards discovered that this Mexican, who flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century, had on ly based his history (in Mexican) on Gomara, which accounted for the resemblance between it and the transcript of the Spanish original which had fallen into Bustamante's hands. The editor's notes are, however, copious and valuable. 28329 LOPEZ DE GOMARA. Conquista de Mexico, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 36s Mexico, 1870 28330 28331 28332 28333 28334 The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, now called new Spayne, atchieued by the worthy Prince Hernando Cortes, Marques of the valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to Reade: Translated out of the Spanishe tongue by T(homas) Nicholas), Anno. 1578. small 4to. fine copy in old calf, £12.; or, tall copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, £20. Henry Bynneman (1578) The name of Lopez de Gomara is nowhere mentioned by the worthy Mr. Nicholas, whose own name is signed in full at the end of the Epistle Dedicatory. This first edition is very rare, most American collectors having to be satisfied with the second edition of 1596, which is the one described by Collier in his "Bibliographical Account." The latter writer errs in stating that the two leaves containing the "Address to the Reader" and Stephen Gosson's verses were first added in the 1596 volume: they are here in the original edition. Collier is also mistaken in asserting that the "auncient gentleman" of the Epistle Dedicatory, with whom Nicholas had an interesting conversation, was identical with Agustin de Zarate, the historian of Peru. Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales & Terres neuues, qui iusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en françois par M. Fumée, Sieur de Marly le Chastel, 12mo. half green morocco, 30s Paris, Sonnius, 1569 Histoire generalle des Indes Occidentales, et Terres neuues, qui iusques à present ont esté descouuertes, Augmentee en ceste cinquiesme edition de la description de la nouuelle Espagne, & de la grande ville de Mexique, traduite en François par le S. de Genillé Mart. Fumée, stout 12mo. fine copy in green morocco extra, gilt edges, £7. 78 ib. 1587 Historia Generale delle Indie, tradotta nella Italiana da Cravaliz, 12mo. fine copy in vellum, 24s Venetia, per Fr. Lorenzini da Turino, 1560 The second part of the collection Historia delle nuove Indie Occidentali." Historia di Mexico, et qvando si discoperse la Nvova Hispagna, conqvistata per l'illvstriss. et ualoroso Principe Don Ferdinando Cortes Marchese del Valle . . . tradotta Avgvstino Cravaliz, sm. 4to. old calf, £20. per Roma, Dorici, 1555—at end, 1556 FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE. From the library of Sir Francis Drake, originally founded by the great sailor of that name. 28335 LAFITAU (J. F.) Histoire des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde, 2 vols. 4to. map and plates, old calf, not uniform, 30s 28336 Paris, 1733 the same, 2 vols. 4to. map and plates, fine copy in old gilt calf, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, £3. 10s Paris, 1733 This is a general work on the history of Portuguese navigations in both hemispheres. 28337 MAFFEII (Joannis Petri) HISTORIARUM INDICARUM libri XVI; selectarum item ex India epistolarum eodem interprete libri IV; acc. Ign. Loiolæ vita, folio, LARGE PAPER, old crimson morocco, with ornamental gilt borders, gilt and gauffred edges, from the Sunderland library, £6. 68 Florent. P. Juncta, 1588 Copies on Large Paper are very rare, and give the book an aspect of dignity to suit its intrinsic importance. 28338 MAFFEI, Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales, traduite de Latin en François par M. M. D. P. (Mich. de Pure), 4to. old calf, 328 Paris, 1665 MAJOR (R. H.)—see p. 2703. 28339 MORELLI, Dissertazione intorno ad alcuni Viaggiatori eruditi Veneziani poco noti, 4to. very few copies printed for presents only, bd, 38 6d Venezia, 1803 the same, bound up with delle Guerre de' Veneziani, nell' Asia, 1470-74, di Cippico, in 1 vol. 4to. hf. cf. 58 28340 1803-1797 28341 MORFI (Juan Agustin) Dialogo entre un comerciante y un politico en que se establece: 1, Que el comercio de España a Filipinas debe ser directo; 2, Que se debe de hacer por el Cavo de Hornos; 3, Y que se ha de hacer por compañias; 4, Planta de una Compañia para el comercio de America, formada por Don Luis Cerdeño-in one volume folio, clearly written MSS. 81 leaves, vellum wrapper, £3. 3s The Planta is embodied as a fourth part in the work of Fray J. A. Morfi, who wrote this MS. about the year 1770. His views were wise and politic, but they came too late for Spain. 28342 MURRAY (H.) Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America, including the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a North-West passage, 2 vols. 8vo. map, calf gilt, 20s 1829 28343 NAVARRETE (M. F. de) Coleccion de Opúsculos de, la dan a luz E. y F. F. de Navarrete, 2 vols. 8vo. calf, £1. Madrid, 1848 The first 291 pages of Vol. I contain "Biografias de Marineros y Descubridores." 28344 OVIEDO Y VALDES (Gonçalo Hernandez de) De la natural hystoria de las Indias, sm. folio, wanting title and leaves 8, 9 and 16, vellum, from the Sunderland library, VERY RARE, £60. 28345 Toledo, 1526 "Ce premier ouvrage du fécond écrivain n'a rien de commun avec la Historia general y natural de las Indias de 1535; c'est un résumé destiné à donner au roi d'Espagne un aperçu des choses du Nouveau-Monde, décrivant les rites, mœurs, coutumes et cérémonies dés naturels."-Brunet, Suppl. Historia general de las Indias (primera parte en diez y nueve libros, con un libro ultimo de la obra), Sevilla, J. Cromberger, 1535-Siguese una carta missiva con que el cronista. embio este volumen-Libro XX de la segunda parte de la general historia de las, Indias, escripta por el Capitan Gonçalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Valladolid, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova, 1557-2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, woodcuts of escutcheons, etc. on titles, bound in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by BEDFORD, £72. 1535-57 Very rare first edition of all that was originally published (the edition printed by the Spanish Academy a few years ago being the only complete impression of Oviedo's work). The Carta missiva which occupies two leaves at the end of the first part, and was printed at the same time, bears the autograph signature of the author, in this form-"Rmo. & illmo. Señor las manos de V. S. Rma. besa Go. Fernandez de Oujedo." The twentieth book (which is the first of part II), published separately at Valladolid in 1557 mas not finished in consequence of the author's death. It is excessively rare. 28346 OVIEDO Y VALDES, Libro XX de la segunda parte de la general historia de las Indias, sm. folio, vellum, from the Sunderland library, £30. Valladolid, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova, 1557 Histoire naturelle et généralle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la grand Mer Oceane, traduicte de Castillan en François (par Jean Poleur), folio, limp vellum, UNCUT, but some of the front margins stained and injured, £7. 28347 Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1556 The rarity of this volume is shown by its omission from the lists of Rich and Ternaux, especially the latter. Even among the Nuggets it does not appear, nor in any but one of the recent catalogues of Americana. The translator's name is absent from French literary history. His work comprises the first ten books of Oviedo's History, of which only twenty had as yet been published in the original Spanish. L'HISTOIRE DE LA TERRE NEVVE DV PERU 1520 Discovery of Peru. see post under 28348 PIZARRO Y ORELLANA, Varones ilustres del NUEVO MUNDO, descubridores, conquistadores, y pacificadores del Imperio de las Indias occidentales, sm. folio, bd. £2. 5s 1777 Madrid, Diaz de la Carrera, 1639 28349 ROBERTSON (W.) History of America, 2 vols. 4to. first edition, maps and plates, fine copy in old russia extra, 18s 28350 SAN ROMAN (Antonio) Historia general de la INDIA ORIENTAL, los Descubrimientos y Conquistas que han hecho las armas de Portugal en el Brasil y en partes de Africa y Asia; y de la Dilatacion del Santo Evangelio por aquellas grandes Provincias, desde sus principias hasta 1557, stout sm. folio, bd. £4. Valladolid, 1603 The author was a native of Valencia, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict. "Cet ouvrage est un des plus importants qui aient été publiés sur les conquêtes faites par les Portugais. Il est rare d'en rencontrer un exemplaire complet."-Salva. 28351 SCHERER (J. B.) Recherches Historiques et Géographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde, 8vo. map, bds. 10s; or, old calf gilt, 12s 1777 28352 SEPTENVILLE (Ed. de) Découvertes et Conquêtes du Portugal dans les deux Mondes, 12mo. sd. 2s 1863 28353 ZURCHER et MARGOLLÉ, Histoire de la Navigation, sm. 8vo. sd. 1s 6d (1867) 2. Supposed Early Discoveries of America; Asiatic; Polynesian; Sec. V (Chinese); Sec. X (Norse); Sec. XII (Welsh); and History of Arctic Naviga tions in the X-XV Centuries. 2834 GARCIA (Gregorio) Origen de los Indios de el Nvevo Mvndo, c Indias Occidentales .. 12mo. hf. bd. from the Ramirez library, £4. Valencia, 1607 |