1. DE NOVO Y COLSON, PEDRO, editor. Viaje politico-cientifico alrededor del mundo por las corbetas descubierta y atrevida al mando de los capitanes de navio D. Alejandro Malaspina y Don Jose de Bustamante y Guerra desde 1789 a 1794. Madrid: la viuda e hijos de Abienzo, 1885. 4to (322 x 220 mm). [8], [xxxxii], [682], [6] pp. Half-title, index. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 6 engraved plates, folding map. Recent morocco backed boards, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in. Toning to leaves, marginal repair to front wrapper, plates clean. Second edition, identical to the first of the same year, of the official account of the scientific expedition of Malaspina and Bustamante y Guerra of 1789 to 1794, which made extensive explorations of the California and Northwest coasts. The account, edited from Malaspina's papers by Novo y Colson, did not appear until nearly a century after the expedition, though it was "Spain's greatest scientific voyage of exploration to the South Seas in the eighteenth century," and is considered by some to be "as great as those of La Perouse of Captain Cook" (Hill 1068). Howes M235; Palau 147592. 2. Extrait d'une lettre de Versailles du I. Septembre in Nouvelles extraordinaires de divers endroits. Numero LXXV. Vendredi 18 Septembre, 1789. 8 page broadsheet, 211 x 151 mm, faint creasing, red ink at upper margin of final page, otherwise fine. EXTREMELY RARE BROADSHEET containing news of the Malaspina expedition, untraceable in all reference sources. It is the first printed record of the voyage.
1. DE NOVO Y COLSON, PEDRO, editor. Viaje politico-cientifico alrededor del mundo por las corbetas descubierta y atrevida al mando de los capitanes de navio D. Alejandro Malaspina y Don Jose de Bustamante y Guerra desde 1789 a 1794. Madrid: la viuda e hijos de Abienzo, 1885. 4to (322 x 220 mm). [8], [xxxxii], [682], [6] pp. Half-title, index. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 6 engraved plates, folding map. Recent morocco backed boards, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in. Toning to leaves, marginal repair to front wrapper, plates clean. Second edition, identical to the first of the same year, of the official account of the scientific expedition of Malaspina and Bustamante y Guerra of 1789 to 1794, which made extensive explorations of the California and Northwest coasts. The account, edited from Malaspina's papers by Novo y Colson, did not appear until nearly a century after the expedition, though it was "Spain's greatest scientific voyage of exploration to the South Seas in the eighteenth century," and is considered by some to be "as great as those of La Perouse of Captain Cook" (Hill 1068). Howes M235; Palau 147592. 2. Extrait d'une lettre de Versailles du I. Septembre in Nouvelles extraordinaires de divers endroits. Numero LXXV. Vendredi 18 Septembre, 1789. 8 page broadsheet, 211 x 151 mm, faint creasing, red ink at upper margin of final page, otherwise fine. EXTREMELY RARE BROADSHEET containing news of the Malaspina expedition, untraceable in all reference sources. It is the first printed record of the voyage.
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