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HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (1559-1625). Description des Indes Occidentales...le Nouveau Monde. – LE MAIRE, Jacob (1585-1616). Journal, & miroir de la navigation australe. – CEVALLOS, Pedro Ordóñez de (b. ca 1550). Particuliere description de Inde occidentale. – BERTIUS, Petrus (1565-1629). Description d’Amerique qui est le nouveau monde. Amsterdam: Michel Colin, 1622.
Four parts in one volume, 2° (281 x 184 mm). Engraved title, 17 engraved double-page or folding maps and charts, five three-quarter page engraved illustrations in text. (Lacking the portrait of Le Maire as often, map 16 with long repaired tear.) Contemporary sheep, spine gilt (some rubbing and small areas of peeling on back cover).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. The small map on the title is the FIRST TO DELINEATE CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND. A legend on Henry Brigg’s 1625 map, published in Purchas’ Pilgrimes makes reference to this as the probable source for Brigg’s own map. "The volume is valuable as containing the first edition of the genuine Voyage of Le Maire (also issued in Latin and Dutch in the same year) as distinguished from that which had been, through the Dutch India Company's jealousy of Le Maire, published by Blaeu under the name of Cornelius Schouten, who had commanded one of Le Maire's vessels. It concludes with the Spanish and English voyages to Magellan's Straits and the descriptions of the America given by Ordonez de Cevallos and Bertius" (Sabin 31543 "the French translation has not the portrait of Le Maire"). Alden & Landis 622/67; JCB (1919) II, p. 166; Nordenskiöld 970; Tiele 295; Wagner Spanish Southwest, 12a.