CALIFORNIA]. GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS. A Relation of the Invasion and Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards, Under the Command of Fernando de Soto. Written in Portuguese by a Gentleman of the Town of Elvas. Now Englished. To which is Subjoined Two Journeys of the present Emperour of China into Tartary in the Years 1682, and 1683. With some Discoveries made by the Spaniards in the Island of California, in the Year 1683. London: Printed for John Lawrence 1686. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco spine label, sprinkled red edges, slightly rubbed, half morocco slipcase . First Edition in English, with the licensing leaf at front. Of particular importance is the first printing in English of Isidro de Atondo's "A New Descent of the Spanish On the Island of Califurnia [sic]. In the Year 1683," found on pp. 259-272. In it Atondo gives an account of his expedition to Lower California in 1683 where formal possession for Spain was taken near the Bay of La Paz on April 1, 1683. Streeter sale IV, 2421; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 58b; Sabin 24865; Wing R 840; Cox II, p. 42, which quotes Maggs Catalogue No. 549 as listing this (the Atondo section) as the first printed account in English of the settlement of Lower California.
CALIFORNIA]. GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS. A Relation of the Invasion and Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards, Under the Command of Fernando de Soto. Written in Portuguese by a Gentleman of the Town of Elvas. Now Englished. To which is Subjoined Two Journeys of the present Emperour of China into Tartary in the Years 1682, and 1683. With some Discoveries made by the Spaniards in the Island of California, in the Year 1683. London: Printed for John Lawrence 1686. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco spine label, sprinkled red edges, slightly rubbed, half morocco slipcase . First Edition in English, with the licensing leaf at front. Of particular importance is the first printing in English of Isidro de Atondo's "A New Descent of the Spanish On the Island of Califurnia [sic]. In the Year 1683," found on pp. 259-272. In it Atondo gives an account of his expedition to Lower California in 1683 where formal possession for Spain was taken near the Bay of La Paz on April 1, 1683. Streeter sale IV, 2421; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 58b; Sabin 24865; Wing R 840; Cox II, p. 42, which quotes Maggs Catalogue No. 549 as listing this (the Atondo section) as the first printed account in English of the settlement of Lower California.
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