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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

RECHERCHES SUR LES PROGRES DE L'ASTRONOMIE ET DES SCIENCES NAUTIQUES EN ESPAGNE, Paris, 1839. 20x13'5, 45p + numerosas hojas en blanco, leve óxido en portada. Plena piel, nervios y dorados en lomo, rueda dorada en planos.

couverture souple. Imprimerie Royale (1815-1848)) | Paris 1839 | 15.5 x 22.7 cm | Broché | Edition originale imprimée à petit nombre de cet intéressant rapport extrait des Annales maritimes et coloniales de 1839 (cf. Polak 2837.) Notre exemplaire est présenté broché et sous couverture muette, bleu gris. Déchirures sur le dos et en marges des plats, quelques rousseurs notamment sur la page de titre. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this interesting report extracted from the Annales maritimes et coloniales of 1839 (cf. Polak 2837). Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, with a plain blue-grey cover. Tears to the spine and to the margins of the covers, some foxing, notably on the title page. * in-8 ; 45 pp.

MENDOZA ET NAVARRETE. Notices biographiques. Paris, 1845. Gran folio (34x25), 72pp, mínima mancha de tinta en cortes primeras hojas, rastro oscuro en esquina inf. de la parte interna de las tapas y hojas de respeto blancas. Holandesa ajada.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 3 volumes: 2 text volumes, octavo, (9" x 5 1/2") and atlas volume, folio (23" x 17"). Text: 8 engravings (some spotting and browning). Contemporary French quarter calf marbled boards gilt (worn at the extremities, hinges weak). Atlas: large folding map hand-colored in outline, 21 engraved maps and charts, including one double-page, and 4 plates. Contemporary French red morocco backed red paper boards. Provenance: Bookplates of Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), pioneering endocrinologist, on the front paste-downs of the text volumes. First edition of ". . .one of the most important works on the northwestern coast, including Alaska" (Lada-Mocarski). Duflot de Mofras was sent to Mexico in 1839 as French Ambassador, "but his special mission was to explore and evaluate the commercial possibilities of California and the Oregon Territory, in order that the French government would be better able to decide whether to become involved in the conflict over Oregon between the U.S. and Great Britain" (Hill). This extensive and detailed account of his journey includes the western coast of America from Tehuantepec to the Bering Strait, Vancouver Island, and the Fraser River. Howes describes Duflot de Mofras' account, which was: "Issued under French government auspices, [and] forms an admirable supplement to Humboldt's account of the same region and is the only early illustrated work on the Pacific coast comparable in beauty to the 'Voyage pittoresque' of Choris or to Litké's account of the Russian survey of the northwest coast." The atlas volume contains some magnificent plates of Monterey, California missionary Father Duran, Californian throwing the lasso, and the large and spectacular "Vue de la Mission de Saint Louis Roi de France dans la Nouvelle Californie". The charts and maps of California include the ports of San Diego, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Trinity, San Francisco, and Fort Ross. The large engraved map, one of the greatest western maps, extends along the west coast from Mount St. Elias to Acapulco and east as far as Hudson Bay, Fort Leavenworth, and Austin, Texas. Wheat describes this map: "A landmark.because it made these western regions known in European official circles. De Mofras was much interested in travel routes. East of Santa Fe he noted the 'Route des Chariots des Etats-Unis,' and (for the first time on any published map?) he showed what later came to be called 'The Old Spanish Trail'. De Mofras really should have been a California 'realtor.' For example, in the.interior valley of California he says: 'Cette immense Valleé comprise entre la Sierra Nevada et les Mts. Californiens [the Coast Range], est arrosée de petites rivières et remplie de lagunes d'eau douce très poissonneuses. Ce pays est plus beau encore que la partie habitée de la Californie, son climat est plus doux, il presente des terrains fertiles, des bois de construction superbes et de vastes prairies ou paissent de troupeaux de Certs, d'Antilopes, de Taureaux et de Chevaux sauvages.' [De Mofras] was a sturdy soul, and his highly original map has much to commend it". Cowan I p.186; Graff 1169; Hill 496; Howes D-542; Lada-Mocarski 120; Phillips "Atlases" 1457; Sabin 21144; Streeter Sale VI 3323; Zamarano 80, 30.

extraites des ouvrages espagnols de Don Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, directeur du dépôt hydrographique de Madrid. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1839, in-8, broché sous couverture bleue imprimée. 45 pp. Polak 2837. Intéressant rapport extrait des Annales maritimes et coloniales de 1839. Le naturaliste et diplomate Duflot de Mofras (1810-1884) avait effectué un long séjour à Madrid de 1828 à 1840 ; il put y faire la connaissance du grand historien maritime espagnol que fut Martin Fernandez de Navarette y Ximénez de Tejada (1765-1844).