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FERNANDES DE QUEIROS, PEDRO. Copie de la Requeste presentee au Roy d'Espagne par le capitaine Pierre Ferdinand de Quir, sur la decouverte de la cinquieme Partie du monde, appellee la terre Australle, incogneuë, & des grandes richesses & fertilité d'icelle. A Paris, 1617. 8vo, 16 pp., crushed red levant morocco, covers panelled with a triple gilt gillet, spine in six gilt compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Lortic fils, THE RARE FIRST FRENCH EDITION of de Queiros's eighth memorial to Philip III of Spain.
Pedro Fernandes de Queiros, the first explorer to have conceived of a "Terra Australis Incognita," undertook his voyage of discovery in 1605-6. "On May 3, 1606, de Quiros's fleet anchored in a bay. They had reached the New Hebrides group...De Quiros decided without further evidence that this must be the southland and, fast succumbing to religious mania, named it 'Austrialia del Espiritu Santo' [a punning reference to King Philip's Hapsburg blood], created an order of nobility, distributed taffeta crosses for almost every man-jack on his fleet to wear, christened the stream that ran into the bay the Jordan, and announced in prophetic ecstasy that the New Jerusalem would be built among the coral reefs...." (Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, New York, 1987, pp. 45-46). His ship eventually reached Acapulco, while the two other vessels, under Luis Vaez de Torres and Diego de Prado y Tovar, discovered and passed through the Torres Strait separating Australia and New Guinea. Although Australia was probably never sighted, de Quiros's expedition is regarded as the initial Australian voyage of discovery.
De Quiros spent the next seven years pleading with the Spanish throne to put him in command of another colonizing expedition to his newly discovered land. This eighth request was published in Spain in 1609 or 1610, and translated into several languages, the earliest known translation being the German (Augsburg 1611), with French and English translations following in 1617. All translations are extremely rare; of the three cited editions, this French translation seems to be the rarest, no copies having appeared at auction in the past 60 years. Sabin 67356; JCB 2 (I): 117.
Pedro Fernandes de Queiros, the first explorer to have conceived of a "Terra Australis Incognita," undertook his voyage of discovery in 1605-6. "On May 3, 1606, de Quiros's fleet anchored in a bay. They had reached the New Hebrides group...De Quiros decided without further evidence that this must be the southland and, fast succumbing to religious mania, named it 'Austrialia del Espiritu Santo' [a punning reference to King Philip's Hapsburg blood], created an order of nobility, distributed taffeta crosses for almost every man-jack on his fleet to wear, christened the stream that ran into the bay the Jordan, and announced in prophetic ecstasy that the New Jerusalem would be built among the coral reefs...." (Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, New York, 1987, pp. 45-46). His ship eventually reached Acapulco, while the two other vessels, under Luis Vaez de Torres and Diego de Prado y Tovar, discovered and passed through the Torres Strait separating Australia and New Guinea. Although Australia was probably never sighted, de Quiros's expedition is regarded as the initial Australian voyage of discovery.
De Quiros spent the next seven years pleading with the Spanish throne to put him in command of another colonizing expedition to his newly discovered land. This eighth request was published in Spain in 1609 or 1610, and translated into several languages, the earliest known translation being the German (Augsburg 1611), with French and English translations following in 1617. All translations are extremely rare; of the three cited editions, this French translation seems to be the rarest, no copies having appeared at auction in the past 60 years. Sabin 67356; JCB 2 (I): 117.