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Credit: Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[683] SCHMIDEL (Ulrich). Warhafftige Historien einer wunderbaren Schiffart ... 1534-1554 . . . oder Newenwelt bey Brasilia und Rio della Plata gethan. Engraved vignette on title, coat-of-arms, portrait and 22 curious engraved plates, including a view of Buenos Aires and of the Indian attack on the town and other events on the river Parana. Without the map. First Epirion. Small 4to. Morocco. Nuremberg, Hulsius Collection, 1599. £18 18s [684] SCHMIDTMEYER (Peter). Travels to Chile, over the Andes, in the Years 1820 and 1821. Second and best edition, with 30 plates, 13 of which are in colour, comprising large folding plan of Santiago, plan of the post road between Buenos Ayres and Santiago, and views in Santiago, Scenery, Customs, etc. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt. London, printed by S. McDowall, 1824. £8 8s Schmidtmeyer began his journey at Buenos Aires, and gives an account of that City; he then travelled through the Argentine, across the Andés, and through Chile to Santiago. [685] SCHOMBURGK & BENTLEY. Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana: from drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches taken during the Expedition carried on in the Year 1835 to 1839. With descriptive letter-press by Robert H. Schomburgk. Series of magnificent coloured plates. Large folio. Half calf. London, Ackermann, 1841. £10 10s [686] SEIXAS Y LOVERA (Francisco). Descripcion Geographica, y Derrotero de la Region Austral Magallanica. Small 4to. Niger morocco, g.e. Madrid, 1690. £21 Margin of title repaired. ‘Seixas accompanied Tavernier on his embassy to the Great Mogul, and came home to Spain by way of China, the South Sea, and the Straits of Magellan. He afterwards made a voyage from Holland to China through the same Straits, and returned the same way, so that the greater part of this book is from his own observations.” [687] SEYMOUR (Richard A.). Pioneering in the Pampas: or, The First Four Years of a Settler’s Experience in the La Plata Camps. Illustrated with map. Post 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1869. 15s From the Library of the Comte de Chambord, Henry V of France. {688] SHELVOCKE (Capt. George). A Voyage Round the World by the way of the Great South Sea, perform’d in the years 1719-22. Vignette title, folding map and 4 engraved plates. First Epition. 8vo. Calf. London, J. Senex, 1726. £9 10s “Two histories were published of this Voyage. This, by Capt. Shelvocke, was intended by him as a vindication of his conduct, having been accused of piracy and embezzlement. The other was written by one of his officers, Wm. Betagh, who was treated roughly in Shel- vocke’s narrative, and wrote his account with the design of exposing Shelvocke. Both narra- tives are written with plenty of spirit.” 4 Capt. Shelvocke, privateer, and Capt. Clipperton, sailed in 1719 with an expedition for attacking Spanish shipping. After a few days Shelvocke gave his superior officer the slip in a storm and proceeded on his own account. He spent two months on the coast of Brazil, and proceeded to the Straits of Magellan, where occurred the incident of the Albatross which Wordsworth pointed out to Coleridge in Nov. 1797, and which the latter made use of in his Ancient Mariner. Two months were spent on the coast of Chile, where he sacked Payta and captured several small prizes, among them a vessel loaded with guano for cultivation purposes. Two visits were paid to Juan Fernandez, Robinson Crusoe’s Island, on the second of which the boat was wrecked. A small vessel was built from the wreckage, and Shelvocke sailed up the coast to California, where he noted that the soil was richly auriferous, and conjectured that very probably “this country abounds in metals of all sorts.” He next sailed to China, where [ 99 |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31654344_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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