Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1681 A.D. [47] MARTINEZ DE LA PUENTE (Joseph). Com- pendio de las Historias de los Descubrimientos, Conquistas, y Guerras de la India Oriental, y sus Islas, desde los tiempos del Infante Don Enrique de Portugal su inventor, . . . y la Introduccion del Comercio Portuges en las Malucas, etc. Small thick 4to. Spanish calf. Madrid, Vuida de Joseph Fernandez de Buenduia, 1681. £5 5s This work relates to the history of Portuguese enterprise in the East to the year 1600. Chapter VI relates to the discovery of the Molucca Islands, the Philippines and New Guinea. Concerning New Guinea or Tierra del Papué, the author writes that it is not known whether that country is an island or whether it is a part of the great Antarctic Land. ror A.D. |48 |) MARIANA (MISSIONARIES, \- Lista. de’ los Padres y Hermanos que estan en las Islas Marianas. 1 page, 4to. Marianas (? 1681). 2 IOS An interesting record of the contemporary Padres, who were working together in the Mariana Islands. There is no date, but from the names given, one can infer that it was about 1681. Padre Manuel de Solorzano is mentioned as Vice Provincial, which post he filled during the peaceful days of the development of Rota and Guam. Padre Gerardo Bonwens is second on the list, and was then ‘‘second in command ”’ (taking the post of Vice Provincial after the native rising in 1684, when Solorzano was murdered). Another interesting name is that of Padre Antonio Xaramillo, who spent a considerable part of his time travelling between the Marianas and the Philippines in search of benefits for the former. Padre Lorenzo Bustillo, one of the most fluent chroniclers of the period, is also of this ‘‘ Band of Brothers,’’ whilst a familiar name is that of the Flemish Padre Basilio Leroux who met his death at about the same time as Padre Solorzano. Two other martyrs on the list are the native Brother Phelipe Sonson and Brother Pedro Pavon.
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