Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/149
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [530] NEVRA (Domingo de). Ordenanzas, Actas Primeras de la Moderna Provincia de San Augustin de Buenos Ayres, Thucuman, y Paraguay. Facsimile reproduction of this rare work published about 1742. Small 4to. Wrappers. | Buenos Aires, 1927. £1 5s No. 5 of the Biblioteca Argentina de Libros Raros Americanos. [531] NILES (Blair). Colombia, Land of Miracles. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth. London, 1925. 10s 6d [532] NODAL (B. G. de). Relacion del Viaje que por orden de su Magd. y acuerdo del Real Consejo de Indias. Hizieron los Capitanes Bartolome Garcia de Nodal, y Gongalo de Nodal hermanos, naturales de Ponte Vedra, al descubrimiento del Estrecho nuebo de S. Vicente, y reconosimio. del de Magallanes. With the finely engraved title and with the extremely rare original suppressed folding map of Magellan’s Strait. Original Edition. Small 4to. Enclosed in a levant morocco case. Bound up with several other works. Original vellum. Madrid, 1621. £250 After the account of the voyage is given a brief record of the deeds performed by the Nodal brothers in the service of their King. [533] Relacion del Viage. With fine engraved title-page. The rare Original Edition, but lacking the map. Small gto. Calf. Madrid, 1621. £20 [534] Relacion del Viage ... al descubrimiento del Estrecho nuevo de San Vicente, que hoy es nombrado de Maire, y Reconocimiento del de Magallanes. With folding map of the Straits of Magellan. Small gto. Original vellum. Cadiz, (1769). £7 15s The work gives an account of the Spanish expedition sent out by order of Philip II immediately after the return of Schouten’s expedition, for the exploration of Magellan’s Straits. The brothers Nodel sailed from Lisbon on 27th December, 1618, and did not return until July 9 of the following year. They had with them two Dutch pilots, Jan de Witte, named in the narrative, and Valentine Jansz, who wrote another account of the same voyage, which is preserved in the Archives of the Hague. They had both been with Schouten on his voyage. The Strait Le Maire was re-christened Saint Vincent, which name it retained for some time on Spanish maps. The map accompanying this work is supposed to have been suppressed. It enters more into detail than that of Le Maire, and has a special value of its own. The second portion of the work has separate title and pagination and comprises a work on Navigation in N. America by Manuel de Echevelar, “Instruccion exacta, y util de las Derrotas, y Navegaciones, que se execution en todos tiempos en la America Septentrional, de unos Puertos a otros.” [535] NORDENSKIOLD (Erland). La Vie des Indiens dans le Chaco, Amérique du Sud. With numerous illustrations. 4to. Wrappers. Paris, 1912. 6s [536] NOTES on the Viceroyalty of La Plata, in South America; with a Sketch of the Manners and Character of the Inhabitants, collected during a Residence in the City of Monte Video, by a Gentleman recently returned from it. To which is added, a History of the Operations of the British Troops in that Country, and Biographical and Military Anecdotes of the Principal Officers employed in the different Expeditions. With very fine stipple engraved portrait of Sir Samuel Auchmuty, who commanded at the capture of Monte Video, 3rd Feb., 1807; Maps of South America and Rio de la Plata; and plans of Monte Video, Buenos Aires, and Maldonado Bay. 8vo. Calf, gilt. London, Stockdale, 1808. . £7 Ws An important account of the British Expeditions against Buenos Aires and Monte Video, with interesting details concerning the principal British officers concerned in them. [75]
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