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![Famous IMAGINARY ACCOUNT OF THE ©“ TERRA AUSTRALIS.’ 1607 A.D. [16] HALL (Joseph). Mundus Alter et idem. sive Terra Australis antehac semper incognita longis itineribus pere- grini Academici nuperrime lustrata. With engraved title and 5 folding maps of “ Terra Australis.” 8vo. Original vellum. Hanau, 1607. £10 10S Sabin No. 29819. <A satirical romance in the style of Gulliver’s Travels. See footnote to the previous item. 1609 A.D. [17] MORGA (Antonio de). Sucesos de las Islas Phili- pinas. With finely engraved title shewing a view of the Philippine Islands. 4to. Morocco. Mexico, 16009. oe 325 Sabin No. 50631. Medina, La Imprenta in Mexico, Vol. II, No. 249. Salva No. 33864. Retana Vol. I, No. 68. Medina, Bibliographia de las Islas Filipinas No. 49, only knew of one copy. Tavera No. 1776. The only copies known to Tavera were in the British Museum, National Library, Madrid, Private Library of the King of Spain, and a copy in the Academy of History, Madrid. On the voyage Mendana and Quiros discovered the Marquesas Islands and the Island of Santa Cruz. This is the original issue of De Morga’s work on the Philippine Islands, Moluccas, China, and Japan, at the close of the 16th century. It is extremely rare, and there is no copy of it in the National Library, Paris. The catalogue of the Grenville Library in the British Museum states, that ‘‘ This book, printed in Mexico, is for that reason probably, unknown to bibliographers, and is a book of great rarity.’”’ In the Dialogo Cortesano Philipino of Father Joseph Torrubia, published in Madrid, 1736, the Inhabitant of the Court of Madrid says, that he has not heard of such a book nor of the author; the Philippine Spaniard answers him that the book was printed in Mexico in 1609, and is now scarcely to be found, but that he possesses a copy; and he describes De Morga as a man in whom arms and science were united in a most friendly manner, and says that he composed his book from the original documents, since he was the first Judge of the Audiencia of Manila. De Morga is less remarkable for his literary merits than for his qualities as a jurist and administrator and a commander. His book is rather an historical than a geographical work, but the account of Alvaro De Mendana’s second voyage. by his pilot Fernandez de Quiros, given by De Morga, is of great importance. The Philippines had a great advantage over the British colonies (according to the Hon. H. E. J. Stanley, in his translation of De Morga’s book published for the Hakluyt Society), in the active co-operation of the Monks, who were not very numerous, but rather were insufficient in number for the work they had to do.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31640485_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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