Author: HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.
Title: Novis orbis, sive descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Methaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae Australis Jacobi le Maire Historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. Folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved maps (1 folding, 16 double-page), a full-page portrait, and 4 half-page illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
Description: [4], "81" [=84], [2], "9" [=10], 11, [1 blank] ll.First complete (and official) account of the first expedition to successfully round Cape Horn. It is also the first Latin edition of Herrera y Tordesillas's Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales, expanding the Madrid edition of 1601 with three extra maps and a translation of Jacob Le Maire's journal. The present copy includes the portrait of Le Maire, which is often absent. The work was translated by the famous Neo-Latin poet and first professor of the University of Amsterdam, Caspar Barlaeus (Kaspar van Baerle; 1584-1648).The first part of the work focuses on discoveries in the New World and is illustrated by famous maps of regions in North and South America. Of primary importance, however, is the second part containing the description of the great Dutch navigator Jacob Le Maire's voyage in search of Terra Australis in 1615-17. Le Maire (1585-1616) sailed aboard the Eendracht captained by Willem Cornelis Schouten. Their passage through the Lemaire Strait and the rounding of Patagonia via Cape Horn would impact future navigation in a myriad of ways, but principally in dispelling the idea of an imaginary Southland. The Le Maire voyage was the last of the 17th-century expeditions to search for the unknown continent from the east, and made extensive discoveries in the Pacific.Herrera's Description of the West Indies is published in the first volume of his Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas Terra Firme del mar oceano, a cornerstone for the study of the conquest and colonisation in the Spanish realms of the Americas. A Dutch translation, Nieuwe werelt, anders genaempt West-Indien was published also in 1622 by Michiel Colijn. The present translation in Latin made the Description of the West Indies accessible for the international learned world for the first time.Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549-1625) was a Spanish historian who studied in Spain and Italy. He became secretary to Vespasiano Gonzaga, a brother of the Duke of Mantua, who was afterwards Viceroy of Navarre and Valencia, and who recommended him to King Philip II in the last year of his reign. Philip appointed him grand historiographer (cronista mayor) of America and Castile, and he filled that office during part of his royal patron's reign, the whole reign of Philip III, and the beginning of that of Philip IV. At his death his body was conveyed to Cuellar, and interred in the church of Santa Marina, where his tomb is still to be seen.With the bookplate of the library of Rodney Davidson mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, and the boards are somewhat rubbed, with some loss of paper around the edges. The lower blank margin of the title page has been repaired, the work is slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Tiele 477; Tiele, Mém., pp. 312 and 57-63; Worp, 'Caspar van Baerle', in: Oud Holland, 4 (1886), p. 175; cf. Burden 196-198, 201-206 (maps).
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Title: Novis orbis, sive descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Methaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae Australis Jacobi le Maire Historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. Folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved maps (1 folding, 16 double-page), a full-page portrait, and 4 half-page illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges.
Description: [4], "81" [=84], [2], "9" [=10], 11, [1 blank] ll.First complete (and official) account of the first expedition to successfully round Cape Horn. It is also the first Latin edition of Herrera y Tordesillas's Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales, expanding the Madrid edition of 1601 with three extra maps and a translation of Jacob Le Maire's journal. The present copy includes the portrait of Le Maire, which is often absent. The work was translated by the famous Neo-Latin poet and first professor of the University of Amsterdam, Caspar Barlaeus (Kaspar van Baerle; 1584-1648).The first part of the work focuses on discoveries in the New World and is illustrated by famous maps of regions in North and South America. Of primary importance, however, is the second part containing the description of the great Dutch navigator Jacob Le Maire's voyage in search of Terra Australis in 1615-17. Le Maire (1585-1616) sailed aboard the Eendracht captained by Willem Cornelis Schouten. Their passage through the Lemaire Strait and the rounding of Patagonia via Cape Horn would impact future navigation in a myriad of ways, but principally in dispelling the idea of an imaginary Southland. The Le Maire voyage was the last of the 17th-century expeditions to search for the unknown continent from the east, and made extensive discoveries in the Pacific.Herrera's Description of the West Indies is published in the first volume of his Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas Terra Firme del mar oceano, a cornerstone for the study of the conquest and colonisation in the Spanish realms of the Americas. A Dutch translation, Nieuwe werelt, anders genaempt West-Indien was published also in 1622 by Michiel Colijn. The present translation in Latin made the Description of the West Indies accessible for the international learned world for the first time.Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549-1625) was a Spanish historian who studied in Spain and Italy. He became secretary to Vespasiano Gonzaga, a brother of the Duke of Mantua, who was afterwards Viceroy of Navarre and Valencia, and who recommended him to King Philip II in the last year of his reign. Philip appointed him grand historiographer (cronista mayor) of America and Castile, and he filled that office during part of his royal patron's reign, the whole reign of Philip III, and the beginning of that of Philip IV. At his death his body was conveyed to Cuellar, and interred in the church of Santa Marina, where his tomb is still to be seen.With the bookplate of the library of Rodney Davidson mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, and the boards are somewhat rubbed, with some loss of paper around the edges. The lower blank margin of the title page has been repaired, the work is slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Tiele 477; Tiele, Mém., pp. 312 and 57-63; Worp, 'Caspar van Baerle', in: Oud Holland, 4 (1886), p. 175; cf. Burden 196-198, 201-206 (maps).
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- Book number: 97GFMW01U79O