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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Este libro es una crónica detallada del viaje llevado a cabo por los hermanos Nodal para explorar el Estrecho de Magallanes y el Estrecho de San Vicente en el siglo XVII. La expedición fue encargada por el rey de España y resultó en importantes descubrimientos geográficos y cartográficos. Una lectura fascinante para aquellos interesados en la historia de la exploración marítima.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Este libro es una crónica detallada del viaje llevado a cabo por los hermanos Nodal para explorar el Estrecho de Magallanes y el Estrecho de San Vicente en el siglo XVII. La expedición fue encargada por el rey de España y resultó en importantes descubrimientos geográficos y cartográficos. Una lectura fascinante para aquellos interesados en la historia de la exploración marítima.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition, Cadiz: reimpresso por Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, impressor de la Real Marina, [1766]. bound with: Echevelar (Manuel de). J. M. Y J. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas y navegaciones, que se execuan en todos tiempos en la America septentrional, de unos puertos à otros: con las advertencias de sondas, y notas, para ponerlas en pràctica. Cadiz: en la Real imprenta de Marina, 1753. Two parts in one volume, First work: [20] 1-160 159-162 [4] pp., signatures pi2 [par.]-2[par.]4 A-X4 (2[par.]4 and X4 blank), woodcut initial and head-and tailpieces, engraved folding map (titled 'Reconocimiento de los estrechos de Magallanes y San Vicente . por Don Pedro Texeira Ealbernas', woodcut vignettes in text at pp. 82-3 and 88, ink inscription to title-page verso. Second Work: 41 [3] pp., signatures A-E4 F2' Early full calf binding, 4to (19.3 x 13.6 cm), Engraved Folding Map. This map illustrates one of the most important discoveries in the history of world trade, the discovery of the Strait of Le Maire or, as the Nodal brothers christened it, the Strait of San Vicente. The Nodal expedition was a reconnaissance mission sponsored by King Philip III of Spain in 1619. The purpose was to confirm the recent discoveries of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten of a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the south of Tierra del Fuego. Hill describes the first edition, printed at Madrid in 1621, as 'one of the rarest books on voyages of the seventeenth century . Copies containing the map are so rare that it is believed to have been suppressed in accordance with the official Spanish policy of secrecy'. 'The work gives an account of the Spanish expedition sent out by order of Philip III, immediately after the return of Schouten's expedition, for the exploration of the Magellan Straits. The expedition was led by the brothers Bartolome and Gonzalo Garcia de Nodal, who were accompanied by cosmographer Diego Ramirez de Arrellano, who served as the chief navigator. The expedition departed from Lisbon on September 27, 1618 and by January 22, 1619 the two ships entered the strait discovered by Schouten and Le Maire between Tierra del Fuego and Staten Island. The expedition named the Strait "San Vicente." The pair reconnoitered the region to the south of Tierra del Fuego including the Drake Passage, before returning to Spain on July 7, 1619. Le Maire and Schouten, sponsored by independent Dutch merchants, had circumnavigated via the new-found strait from 1615 to 1617. The importance of their find lay in the fact that Spain preferred to operate a closed sea policy in the Pacific; they claimed that their ships were the only vessels allowed to ply Pacific waters. Other nations did not agree with this policy, but the difficulty and distance in passing via the Straits of Magellan prevented many from attempting to enter the Pacific. Additionally, the Straits were claimed as proprietary territory of the Dutch East India Company, which gave them a veritable monopoly over the passage and prevented non-company ships from passing through, even though the waters were seldom if ever patrolled. The new strait provided a legal avenue for ships of all nations to enter the Pacific, a situation feared by the Spanish whose ports on the western side of South America, already proven vulnerable to sacking by the likes of Francis Drake, were again at risk. The Nodal expedition was meant to provide the Spanish with vital geographic information about the crucial, yet little known, area around the Straits of Magellan. The brothers established the navigability of the passage and found the Diego Ramirez Islands, which remained the most southerly point visited by Europeans until Captain James Cook sailed in the area in 1775. Sabin 55935-6 (including the Instruccion); cf. Borba de Moraes II p. 102, Carter Brown II p. 156, Church 386 and Hill (1974).

Zustand: In fine condition. Small quarto, with a folding map; a fine copy, clean and crisp in contemporary marbled calf, red leather label. The scarce and desirable second edition, realistically the first procurable: the Nodal brothers made a landmark voyage of Pacific discovery to the Straits of Magellan, clearing the way for future Spanish approaches. The voyage came about as the Spanish reflex reaction to the discovery of the Le Maire Strait (called San Vicente by the Spanish) by Le Maire and Schouten during their 1616 voyage in search of the Southern Continent. The Dutch success alarmed the Spanish - but they were also interested in a safer means of passage into the South Sea; they therefore sent out two caravels under the command of the Nodal brothers, to report on the Le Maire and Schouten discoveries. This is effectively the earliest available edition of this important book as the 1621 printing, notoriously difficult to find, was a famous rarity even in the 1860s when Sabin described it as "one of the rarest books of its class". The Hill catalogue called it "one of the rarest books on voyages of the 17th century", and even Streeter had to settle for an incomplete copy. The first edition has almost never appeared complete on the market in modern times. The second part is new to this edition: separately paginated, it has its own title-page (Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas, y navegaciones, que se executan en todos tiempos en la America Septentrional . Sacala a luz D. Manuel de Echevelar . Año de 1753. Con Licencia: en Cadiz en la Real Imprenta de Marina, Calle de San Francisco). 'This was the first circumnavigation of Tierra del Fuego. The whole voyage, out and back, had taken only nine months and twelve days: 'a period which, in the present state of navigation, would be reckoned very short for the performance of such a voyage, and was then unprecedented' (Burney) - many a Dutch and English ship took longer just to reach Cabo Virgines. The ships had never once separated, and except for one man hanged at Rio for plotting mutiny, there was not a single death. Rapid as the voyage was, it was not scamped; the Nodals brought back careful and clear sailing instructions, and paid unusual attention to tidal observations. Their conduct of the voyage was indeed a model of decision and efficiency; but they fell victims to the general slackness which was creeping over Spanish naval affairs: the Spain of Philip III was not that of Philip II' (Spate II, p. 26). .

No binding. Zustand: Good. ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS OF ITS CLASS." Small quarto (200 x 145 mm.), full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, with both first and final free endpapers. With ornate engraved title page, leaves (11), 65, 15, 3 woodcuts in the text and woodcut initials, large folding map in facsimile (origins unidentified), with the usual manuscript monogram at the end believed to be 'BGN' or Bartolome Garci Nodal, paper repair to Errata leaf, otherwise in good condition. This work was described by Sabin in the 1860s as being 'one of the rarest books of its class.' Borba de Moraes comments that 'This first edition, particularly with the map, is very rare and in fact is considered one of the rarest travel books of the seventeenth century. Copies containing the map are so rare that it is believed to have been withdrawn [in accordance with the official Spanish policy of secrecy] . [the book] is of great value as a work of navigation.'News of the discovery of the rounding of Cape Horn by Jacob Le Maire and Cornelis Schouten in 1615-17 reached Spain shortly after their return. As the region was made even harder to protect against vessels entering the Pacific, King Philip III of Spain immediately organised a voyage to investigate and built two special vessels designed for it in Lisbon. Recruitment for such a dangerous voyage proved difficult so the crew were made up of prisoners and press-ganged individuals. Some of the pilots had been on Le Maire and Schouten's voyage and the whole voyage was under the command of the Nodal brothers, Bartolome (1574-1622) and Gonzalo (1578-1622), from Galicia. Sailing from Lisbon in September 1618 they reached Rio de Janeiro in November and undertook repairs before moving on south. They were the first to circumnavigate Tierra del Fuego and managed to return to Spain by July 1619. Remarkably not a single man was lost and the two ships did not lose sight of each other. One of those vessels was the 'Nuestra Senora de Atocha' which would sink in a hurricane in 1622 off the coast of Florida. With an estimated 40 tonnes of gold and silver. It was this vessel's treasure that Mel Fisher would recover in the 1970s. The wreck also took the life of both Nodal brothers.The resulting map was a considerable advance on that produced by the Dutch. Indeed, copies of the book are so rare that most commentators believe it was supressed by the authorities. Considering its accuracy, it is not surprising. Here a facsimile is included. The Nodal's returned with precise sailing instructions and accurate observations on the tides. It is considered the first of the Derrotero's for navigating the Americas. The chief navigator on the voyage was the cosmographer Diego Ramirez de Arellano (c.1580-1624) after whom the islands are named south of Cape Horn. It was the furthest south any European had reached until Captain James Cook in 1775. The map names the strait they sailed through 'S. Vincent' but it did not hold and is today called Le Maire Strait.The title page contains vignette images of the two vessels in the corners and portraits of the two Nodal brothers. Found at the end of the book as Church states is "as usual, has at the end a manuscript monogram, not easily read, but probably "B. G. N.", Bartholome Garcis de Nodal, and is presumably in his handwriting. The initial front free endpaper bears a long-handwritten description of the voyage in the hand of a Josà de Villanueva Pico, Capitan de Mar y Guerra. He appears to be the same individual who submitted a request for land in 1735 east-north-east of Montevideo in present day Uruguay. Provenance: First front free endpaper bears manuscript notations in the hand of 'Dn. Joseph de Villanueva Pico Capitan de Mar y Guerra', believed to be seventeenth century Mexican ownership; further inscription above effaced; Sotheby's London 13 November 2003 lot 498; Juan and Peggy Rada Collection. Alden (1980-97) 621/90; Borba de Moraes (1983) p. 616; Buisseret (2007) pp. 1165-7; Church (1907).

Second edition of Nodal. 2 works in one vol., small 4to, [xx], 162, [ii]; [ii], 43 pp., engraved folding map. Contemporary limp vellum, spine ink lettered, a fine example. The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the discovery of the Magellan Straits, etc., performed by the two brothers Captains Nodal. is one of the rarest books of its class. The strait of San Vincente had been traversed by Le Maire shortly before the brothers Nodal, and his name has remained to designate it. But the Spanish map has a special value of its own, and is more detailed than Le Maire's.' (Sabin). First published in 1621, the Nodal brothers' landmark voyage includes the first circumnavigation of Tierra del Fuego. They were dispatched by the Spanish authorities who had become alarmed by the news of the discoveries made by Le Maire and Schouten on their voyage of 1616 in search of the Southern Continent. The Nodals returned with accurate observations of the tides in the Straits of Magellan and precise sailing instructions for the area. Palau 78299; Sabin 55395 & 55396, cf. 55394.