![VIANA, Francisco Javier de (fl.1794). Diario del Viage Explorador de las Corbetas Españolas "Descubierta" y "Atrevida," en los años de 1789 á 1794. [Montevideo]: Cerrito de la Victoria, Imprenta del Ejrcito, 1849. 8°-in-2s (204 x 142mm). With original front wrapper title and second title-page, text set within an ornamental typographic border. (Small light marginal stain affecting wrapper and first few gatherings, wrapper lightly finger-soiled, leaf 25.2 with repairs affecting small portions of text, occasional light browning with pp.177-216 heavily affected.) Near contemporary South American tree calf by A. Ruis, red morocco gilt lettering piece, marbled endpapers (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Candido Juanicao de Viana(ink inscription to wrapper title) -- Justo Juanico (ink inscription to second title-page and gilt initials to spine).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_02362_0170_000(viana_francisco_javier_de_diario_del_viage_explorador_de_las_corbetas042124).jpg?w=1)
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VIANA, Francisco Javier de (fl.1794). Diario del Viage Explorador de las Corbetas Españolas "Descubierta" y "Atrevida," en los años de 1789 á 1794. [Montevideo]: Cerrito de la Victoria, Imprenta del Ejrcito, 1849. 8°-in-2s (204 x 142mm). With original front wrapper title and second title-page, text set within an ornamental typographic border. (Small light marginal stain affecting wrapper and first few gatherings, wrapper lightly finger-soiled, leaf 25.2 with repairs affecting small portions of text, occasional light browning with pp.177-216 heavily affected.) Near contemporary South American tree calf by A. Ruis, red morocco gilt lettering piece, marbled endpapers (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Candido Juanicao de Viana(ink inscription to wrapper title) -- Justo Juanico (ink inscription to second title-page and gilt initials to spine).
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS RELATING TO AUSTRALIA, WITH FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF MALASPINA'S VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1810) made a crucial 18th-century world voyage that included a visit to Port Jackson in 1793. Upon his return to Spain, court intrigue, which resulted in Malaspina's imprisonment, halted the publication of an official account. Francisco Javier de Viana was an ensign on the voyage, and although his account does not cover the entire expedition (it ends in February 1794, in Montevideo, where Viana seems to have left the expedition), his was the first report of the Malaspina voyage to be published. It was prepared by his sons and printed on the travelling press of the army besieging Montevideo during the war between Argentina and Uruguay, thus partially explaining its great scarcity.
In the context of Australian exploration the work is of great importance, providing detailed information about Port Jackson just five years after the first settlement (the section occupies pp.258-266). Of perhaps equal importance was the voyage's exploration of the coast from California to Alaska. Lada-Mocarski notes that with the exception of José Espinosa y Tello's introduction to the Relacion del viage...por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana (Madrid, 1802), there is 'nothing as complete and detailed [about the Malaspina expedition] printed before 1868' (pp.334-337 contains the log of the voyage from Acapulco to Port Mulgrave to Nootka). Ferguson 5228 and 5100; Howes V-85; Lada-Mocarski 134; Palau 36188; Wagner Northwest Coast& I:225-29; Wickersham 6642; not in Hill or Sabin. VERY RARE.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS RELATING TO AUSTRALIA, WITH FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF MALASPINA'S VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1810) made a crucial 18th-century world voyage that included a visit to Port Jackson in 1793. Upon his return to Spain, court intrigue, which resulted in Malaspina's imprisonment, halted the publication of an official account. Francisco Javier de Viana was an ensign on the voyage, and although his account does not cover the entire expedition (it ends in February 1794, in Montevideo, where Viana seems to have left the expedition), his was the first report of the Malaspina voyage to be published. It was prepared by his sons and printed on the travelling press of the army besieging Montevideo during the war between Argentina and Uruguay, thus partially explaining its great scarcity.
In the context of Australian exploration the work is of great importance, providing detailed information about Port Jackson just five years after the first settlement (the section occupies pp.258-266). Of perhaps equal importance was the voyage's exploration of the coast from California to Alaska. Lada-Mocarski notes that with the exception of José Espinosa y Tello's introduction to the Relacion del viage...por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana (Madrid, 1802), there is 'nothing as complete and detailed [about the Malaspina expedition] printed before 1868' (pp.334-337 contains the log of the voyage from Acapulco to Port Mulgrave to Nootka). Ferguson 5228 and 5100; Howes V-85; Lada-Mocarski 134; Palau 36188; Wagner Northwest Coast& I:225-29; Wickersham 6642; not in Hill or Sabin. VERY RARE.