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ANDRÉS GARCÍA DE CÉSPEDES (d.1611)
Regimiento de Navegación q. mando hazer el Rei nuestro señor por orden de su Consejo Real de las Indias, a su cosmografo major. [- Segunda Parte, en que se pone una Hydrografia]. [Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606]. 2° (303 x 205mm). Engraved title-page, letterpress title, folding map, woodcut diagrams throughout. (Title restored at upper and lower margins and small inked number outside plate mark, book label removed from paste-down, 3 leaves spotted, some mis-numbered.) Contemporary vellum, spine labelled in ink, modern morocco-backed box.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT SPANISH NAVIGATIONAL MANUAL including documents relating to the dispute with Portugal on the demarcation line between Spanish and Portuguese America first set by Papal decree in 1493. Céspedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III, drew on information in an earlier work on navigation and mathematics by the Portuguese, Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), reputed inventor of the rhumb line, but the "Regimento" is substantially his own. He corrected the charts of the Indian Ocean, producing the most accuarte to date, and in the long final section gives a general guide to navigation in the Americas with sailing directions for the West Indies, Veracruz, Havana, and from Spain to Rio de la Plata, the Straits of Magellan and the Pacific coast of South America. Brunet I, 1755; Sabin 11718; Palau 98619.
Regimiento de Navegación q. mando hazer el Rei nuestro señor por orden de su Consejo Real de las Indias, a su cosmografo major. [- Segunda Parte, en que se pone una Hydrografia]. [Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606]. 2° (303 x 205mm). Engraved title-page, letterpress title, folding map, woodcut diagrams throughout. (Title restored at upper and lower margins and small inked number outside plate mark, book label removed from paste-down, 3 leaves spotted, some mis-numbered.) Contemporary vellum, spine labelled in ink, modern morocco-backed box.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT SPANISH NAVIGATIONAL MANUAL including documents relating to the dispute with Portugal on the demarcation line between Spanish and Portuguese America first set by Papal decree in 1493. Céspedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III, drew on information in an earlier work on navigation and mathematics by the Portuguese, Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), reputed inventor of the rhumb line, but the "Regimento" is substantially his own. He corrected the charts of the Indian Ocean, producing the most accuarte to date, and in the long final section gives a general guide to navigation in the Americas with sailing directions for the West Indies, Veracruz, Havana, and from Spain to Rio de la Plata, the Straits of Magellan and the Pacific coast of South America. Brunet I, 1755; Sabin 11718; Palau 98619.
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