Author: Kelly, Celsus [ed.]
Title: La Austrialia Del Espíritu Santo / the Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F. M. / and Other Documents Relating to the Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós / to the South Sea (1605-1606) / and / the Franciscan Missionary Plan / 1617-1627 (Two Volumes)
Description: Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. pp. xvii, 270; xv, 273-446. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, red ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good+ slightly worn and sunned dustjackets, showing short closed tears along edges. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 126 & 127. "With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G. S. Parsonson..The ‘Relación' of Munilla, chaplain and vicar of the royal fleet and commissary of the Franciscans in the Quirós expedition, with an extensive introduction..The ‘Sumario Breve' of Juan de Iturbe, followed by documents bearing on the preparations for the expedition, the voyage of Quirós, Quirós in New Spain, negotiations for another expedition, and the missionary plan. Two appendices, one by G. S. Parsonson. .

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