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(EARLY EXPLORATION.)
Group of 4 works on early Spanish exploration
and conquest.
14 volumes, various sizes and conditions.
Vp, 1829-81
[500/750]
Fernández de Navarrete. Examen histórico-crítico de los viajes y descubrimientos apócrifos del
Capitan Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado. Madrid, 1849 (2 copies) * Ponce. Relacion breve y
verdadera de algunas cosas de las muchas que sucedieron. 2 volumes, title page detached. Madrid,
1873 * Solis. Historia de la conquista de Méjico. 9 volumes. Madrid, 1829 * Coleccion de
documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organizacion de la antiguas
posessiones Españolas. Tomo XXXVI only. Madrid, 1881.
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(ENGLISH LANGUAGE.)
Group of 4 works on Latin America in English.
4 volumes, various sizes, bindings, and conditions.
Vp, 1839-78
[400/600]
Forbes. California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Map in facsimile. London,
1839 * Mayer. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican. Third edition. Hartford, 1853 *
Squier. Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. New York, 1877 *
Taylor. Our South American Cousins. New York, 1878.
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(FLORIDA.) Gálvez, Bernardo de.
Diario de las operaciones de la expedicion
contra la Plaza de Panzacola.
45, [3] pages. 4to, contemporary wrappers, minor wear.
[Habana, México, or Madrid, 1781?]
[3,000/4,000]
Galvez’s narrative of his Spanish naval expedition against the British fort at Pensacola, 1780-
81. “This capture of Pensacola was not only one of the most glorious events of the Revolution,
but it also in effect broke the British hold on West Florida and made it likely that Spain would
be given Florida at the Peace of 1783”—Streeter sale II:1191. The place of publication is
variously assumed to be Madrid, Havana, or Mexico. Howes P59 (“b”); Medina, Mexico
7195; Palau 96980; Sabin 19949, 26475; Streeter sale II:1191.
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