FERNÁNDEZ DE NAVARRETE, Martin (1765-1844), but often attributed to José ESPINOSA Y TELLO (1763-1815), see below]. Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de fuca . Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1802. The exceptionally rare and important first edition with seminal maps of the Spanish Northwest. Wagner states that the maps of the Northwest Coast in the atlas are superior in some respects to Vancouver's and that Alexandre von Humboldt used them as models for some of the maps in his very influential Essai politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne (1811). Attribution of this work is a source of some debate. Fernández de Navarrete was a member of a family with long-standing naval tradition and was a career naval officer with access to privileged information. He was instrumental in founding the Depósito Hidrográfico in Madrid and compiled a great deal of data about Spanish naval history, including the transcription of over forty immense volumes of rare manuscripts regarding Spanish voyages since the fifteenth century. The work is sometimes attributed to José Espinosa y Tello, the cosmographer on the Malaspina expedition, whose own account of the voyage was published in 1809. However, given his accumulated study, it is more likely that Fernandéz de Navarrete authored this summary of Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast, especially in light of the fact that neither Palau nor Sabin associate Espinosa y Tello with the work. Cowan II p.198; Graff 1262 ("most important account of the exploration of the Far Northwest coast by the Spanish"); Hill 570; Howes F-18 ("dd"); Jones 686; Lada-Mocarski 56 ("unsurpassed in importance"); Miles & Reese Creating America 98; Palau 82853-4; Pilling 51; Sabin 2312 (atlas) & 69221 (text); Streeter sale 2468; Wagner 252 & 861; Wickersham 6632 & 6638. Quarto text (210 x 140mm) and atlas folio (298 x 203mm). Errata leaf, one folding table in text in text (marginal pink stain to first few leaves). Atlas with title, 1-leaf description of the plates; 17 plates, comprising 9 engraved maps 4 of which are folding, 2 folding aquatint views of Nootka, 3 engraved portraits and 3 engraved ethnographic studies (date inkstamp on title verso, very occasional foxmarks, a few bound slightly tight, overall very clean). Text bound in contemporary marbled sheep, red morocco lettering piece; atlas in later 19th century half calf over marbled boards (rebacked, rubbed), half morocco clamshell case. Provenance : Royal Military College (text vol only: bookplate, de-accession stamp, erased numbers and a neat label to title) – Lady Maud Hooper (bookplate in atlas) – Hordern House.
FERNÁNDEZ DE NAVARRETE, Martin (1765-1844), but often attributed to José ESPINOSA Y TELLO (1763-1815), see below]. Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de fuca . Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1802. The exceptionally rare and important first edition with seminal maps of the Spanish Northwest. Wagner states that the maps of the Northwest Coast in the atlas are superior in some respects to Vancouver's and that Alexandre von Humboldt used them as models for some of the maps in his very influential Essai politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne (1811). Attribution of this work is a source of some debate. Fernández de Navarrete was a member of a family with long-standing naval tradition and was a career naval officer with access to privileged information. He was instrumental in founding the Depósito Hidrográfico in Madrid and compiled a great deal of data about Spanish naval history, including the transcription of over forty immense volumes of rare manuscripts regarding Spanish voyages since the fifteenth century. The work is sometimes attributed to José Espinosa y Tello, the cosmographer on the Malaspina expedition, whose own account of the voyage was published in 1809. However, given his accumulated study, it is more likely that Fernandéz de Navarrete authored this summary of Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast, especially in light of the fact that neither Palau nor Sabin associate Espinosa y Tello with the work. Cowan II p.198; Graff 1262 ("most important account of the exploration of the Far Northwest coast by the Spanish"); Hill 570; Howes F-18 ("dd"); Jones 686; Lada-Mocarski 56 ("unsurpassed in importance"); Miles & Reese Creating America 98; Palau 82853-4; Pilling 51; Sabin 2312 (atlas) & 69221 (text); Streeter sale 2468; Wagner 252 & 861; Wickersham 6632 & 6638. Quarto text (210 x 140mm) and atlas folio (298 x 203mm). Errata leaf, one folding table in text in text (marginal pink stain to first few leaves). Atlas with title, 1-leaf description of the plates; 17 plates, comprising 9 engraved maps 4 of which are folding, 2 folding aquatint views of Nootka, 3 engraved portraits and 3 engraved ethnographic studies (date inkstamp on title verso, very occasional foxmarks, a few bound slightly tight, overall very clean). Text bound in contemporary marbled sheep, red morocco lettering piece; atlas in later 19th century half calf over marbled boards (rebacked, rubbed), half morocco clamshell case. Provenance : Royal Military College (text vol only: bookplate, de-accession stamp, erased numbers and a neat label to title) – Lady Maud Hooper (bookplate in atlas) – Hordern House.
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