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JOSÉ ESPINOSA Y TELLO (1763-1815)
Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca; con una introduccion en que se da noticia de las expediciones executadas anteriormente por los españoles en busca del paso del noroeste de la América. Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1802. 8° (211 x 145mm) and 2° (303 x 217mm). Text with a folding table of the California missions, a Nootka vocabulary, errata leaf; Atlas with 9 engraved maps, 5 folding, and 8 plates, 2 being folding aquatints. 19th-century half tan morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt (a little rubbed, spines faded). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878, book label on upper pastedown of text volume, but removed from Atlas, his sale, Sotheby's, 15 November 1911, lot 6273).
THE HUTH LIBRARY COPY OF A FINE AND VERY RARE VOYAGE to the Pacific Northwest intended as a counter to Vancouver's voyage published in 1798. This valuable addition to Malaspina greatly supplements the overall results of the expedition, especially as its full scope was virtually unknown for many years. This segment of the expedition was led by Captains Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés, with Espinosa y Tello serving as cartographer. When Malaspina abandoned his search for the Strait of Anian and sailed to California in 1791, these men returned north in the Mexican-built vessels Sutil and Mexicana. They completed the charts for the Strait of Georgia, made the first continuous circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, and surveyed the newly-discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca (where they met and exchanged information with Vancouver), before continuing northward in their search for the North-West Passage. Their stay at Nootka Sound is vividly illustrated in the folding aquatint plates by José de Cardero and the maps are from charts made on this voyage as well as on Malaspina's voyage aboard Descubierta, although his name is omitted throughout. The work is variously ascribed to Galiano, captain of the Sutil, and to Francisco de Navarette, who wrote the valuable introductory history on Spanish voyages. Both Hill and Lada-Mocarski credit Espinosa y Tello. It was, in fact, Espinosa who first proposed leading the entire expedition but instead was given charge of preparations and only joined Malaspina when he first reached Acapulco. A separate appendix by Espinosa was published in 1806 with astronomical observations but it does not form part of the text or atlas of this work. Hill 570; Palau 82853-54; Sabin 69221; Lada-Mocarski 56. (2)
Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca; con una introduccion en que se da noticia de las expediciones executadas anteriormente por los españoles en busca del paso del noroeste de la América. Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1802. 8° (211 x 145mm) and 2° (303 x 217mm). Text with a folding table of the California missions, a Nootka vocabulary, errata leaf; Atlas with 9 engraved maps, 5 folding, and 8 plates, 2 being folding aquatints. 19th-century half tan morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt (a little rubbed, spines faded). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878, book label on upper pastedown of text volume, but removed from Atlas, his sale, Sotheby's, 15 November 1911, lot 6273).
THE HUTH LIBRARY COPY OF A FINE AND VERY RARE VOYAGE to the Pacific Northwest intended as a counter to Vancouver's voyage published in 1798. This valuable addition to Malaspina greatly supplements the overall results of the expedition, especially as its full scope was virtually unknown for many years. This segment of the expedition was led by Captains Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés, with Espinosa y Tello serving as cartographer. When Malaspina abandoned his search for the Strait of Anian and sailed to California in 1791, these men returned north in the Mexican-built vessels Sutil and Mexicana. They completed the charts for the Strait of Georgia, made the first continuous circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, and surveyed the newly-discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca (where they met and exchanged information with Vancouver), before continuing northward in their search for the North-West Passage. Their stay at Nootka Sound is vividly illustrated in the folding aquatint plates by José de Cardero and the maps are from charts made on this voyage as well as on Malaspina's voyage aboard Descubierta, although his name is omitted throughout. The work is variously ascribed to Galiano, captain of the Sutil, and to Francisco de Navarette, who wrote the valuable introductory history on Spanish voyages. Both Hill and Lada-Mocarski credit Espinosa y Tello. It was, in fact, Espinosa who first proposed leading the entire expedition but instead was given charge of preparations and only joined Malaspina when he first reached Acapulco. A separate appendix by Espinosa was published in 1806 with astronomical observations but it does not form part of the text or atlas of this work. Hill 570; Palau 82853-54; Sabin 69221; Lada-Mocarski 56. (2)
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