Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo

Cotejado con el codice original por

Jose Amador de los Rios

Madrid, Imprenta Audiencia de la Historia 1851-1855

Palau 89532; Sabin 57990

4 Vols in large, thick quarto

Modern, red, grained morocco; spine, raised bands and gilt titles

Vol I: Frontis with Coat of Arms; 56 lvs Life and works of Oviedo; 632 pp;

5 plates. 1 Leaf: errata

Vol II: 4 lvs; 512 pp; 1 plate and two (one folding) maps

Vol III: 4 lvs; 652 pp; 1 plate; one map

Vol IV: 4 lvs; 620 pp; 4 plates, one folding and colored map

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Various authors

In octavo, half calf. Title lables on spine

One bookplate: Verum atque decens

And in MS: Lee Hartwell, 1855

8pp

One double page world map

5 black and white lithos

4 maps:     Central America and Santo Thomas district and

Border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica and a map of the `    Caribbean

Pp 5-64: Compagnie Belge: renseignement

Pp 1-170: Exploration de lAmerique Centrale

Pp1-70: Opinion des voyageurs

Pp 1-64: Opinion de la Presse Française

Vargas y Ponce, J. de

Madrid, viuda de Ibarra. 1788 & idem 1793

(Palau 352514 y -515; Sabin 16765 & 1729; Hill 1756)

In quarto; contemporary red morocco

Spine comparted and gilt embossed

Handpainted, blue endpaper

Portrait: Magellan

2 lvs; 7 lvs; folded map; p. 1-70; 4 folded tables;

p. 75-160; one folded map; p. 161-360; two folding maps.

(Apendice 1793):

2 nn lvs; p.1-97; folding table (=98); p. 99-128; folded map

Complete with 5 folding maps and 5 folding tables. Good overall internal condition, slight water staining at the last leaves.

Nodal, Bartolome & Gonzalo

Cadiz, 1753

Palau 99486

Small in quarto, contemporary limp vellum

Title in manuscript on the spine: Viage de los capitanes Nodales

10 nn lvs; 162 pp 2 nn lvs

44 pp one original blank leaf.

One folding map, dated 1769: 19,5x17 cm on a larger folding leaf

Various small woodcut coastal profiles.

Complete and clean copy in its original condition. Tiny worming here and there, mainly marginal.

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