![GARCÍA DE CÉSPEDES, Andrés (d.1611). Regimiento de Navegacion 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.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14376_0394_001(garcia_de_cespedes_andres_regimiento_de_navegacion_q_mando_hazer_el_re062747).jpg?w=1)
![GARCÍA DE CÉSPEDES, Andrés (d.1611). Regimiento de Navegacion 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.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14376_0394_000(garcia_de_cespedes_andres_regimiento_de_navegacion_q_mando_hazer_el_re032238).jpg?w=1)
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GARCÍA DE CÉSPEDES, Andrés (d.1611). Regimiento de Navegacion 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.
The rare first edition of this 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. García de Céspedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III, drew on information in an earlier work on navigation and mathematics by the Portuguese, Pedro Nuñez (1502-1578), reputed inventor of the rhumb line, but the Regimiento is substantially his own. He corrected the charts of the Indian Ocean, producing the most accurate 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. Juan de la Cuesta was also Cervantes' publisher including the first edition Don Quixote in 1605. Alden & Landis 606/50; Brunet I:1755; JCB (3) II:39; Palau 98619; Sabin 11718; Wagner Northwest Coast 244.
Two parts in one volume, folio (280 x 192mm). Engraved title-page to the first part, letterpress title to the second. Engraved folding world map [Shirley 256] (147 x 285mm), woodcut diagrams throughout (map with repaired tear reaching into the image, dampstaining, heaviest at beginning). 19th-century vellum over pasteboard gilt. Provenance: some penciled marginalia in Spanish; Frank S. Streeter (bookplate; his sale, Christie’s New York, 16 April 2007, lot 219).
The rare first edition of this 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. García de Céspedes, Royal Cosmographer to Felipe III, drew on information in an earlier work on navigation and mathematics by the Portuguese, Pedro Nuñez (1502-1578), reputed inventor of the rhumb line, but the Regimiento is substantially his own. He corrected the charts of the Indian Ocean, producing the most accurate 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. Juan de la Cuesta was also Cervantes' publisher including the first edition Don Quixote in 1605. Alden & Landis 606/50; Brunet I:1755; JCB (3) II:39; Palau 98619; Sabin 11718; Wagner Northwest Coast 244.
Two parts in one volume, folio (280 x 192mm). Engraved title-page to the first part, letterpress title to the second. Engraved folding world map [Shirley 256] (147 x 285mm), woodcut diagrams throughout (map with repaired tear reaching into the image, dampstaining, heaviest at beginning). 19th-century vellum over pasteboard gilt. Provenance: some penciled marginalia in Spanish; Frank S. Streeter (bookplate; his sale, Christie’s New York, 16 April 2007, lot 219).