Author: CORNEY, BOLTON GLANVILL; Transcriber, Translator and Editor.
Title: The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez. In the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1. Preceded by and Extract from Jacob Roggeveen's Official Log of his discovery of and visit to Easter Island in 1722. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Vol.13.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. lxxvii, 176, 40; b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations, 3 fold out b/w maps located in pocket at rear, appendices, bibliography, index; original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, browning to endpapers; spine a little faded, a very good copy. Cambridge; The Hakluyt Society; 1908. Maps and plates including nice early representation of Australia 1739, in Hemispherical Meriodonal Nouvelle Hollande detailing Terre de Nuyts Tere d' Endracht oui la Concorde, Terre de Leuwin also Nouvelle Zelande. Includes Kyrriographic characters inscribed by Caciques on deed, Don Juan Herves Plan of the Isle of San Carlos, Modern Admiralty chart of Easter Island after survey by Chilean Corvette O'Higgins. Appendices include extract from log of voyage of Roggeveen in the ships Den Arend, Thienhoven And De Afrikaansche Galey. Appendices of Behren's narrative of visit, note on Don Manuel de Amats successor, extract from letter relating to Don Felipe Gonzalez's voyage, extract from Journal by Lieut. George Peard of HMS Blossom 1825.

Keywords: hakluyt maritime history discovery exploration Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez San Larenzo Santa Rosalina Easter Island voyage Den Arend Thienhoven De Afrikaansche Galey nouvelle Hollande Zelande Terre de Nuyts Tere d' Endracht oui la Concorde Terre de Leuwin