AMERICA - NORTH-WEST COAST


FERNANDEZ DE NAVARRETE (MARTIN) or JOSEF ESPINOSA Y TELLO. Atlas para el viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792, letterpress list of plates and 14 engraved maps and plates (only, of 17), comprising: 7 engraved maps (2 folding, lacking numbers 1 & 2), folding aquatint view of Nootka (lacking the other folding view, number 10), 3 engraved portraits and 3 engraved ethnographic studies, heavy dampstain in lower margin throughout (within platemark but not affecting image except on folding view), some worming in fore-margin (but within outer border on map number 9), contemporary limp marbled wrappers, lower cover chipped at foot, lacking backstrip [cf. Graff 1262; Hill 570; Howes F-18; Lada-Mocarski 56 ("unsurpassed in importance"); Palau 82853-4; Sabin 2312; Streeter sale 2468; Wagner 861], folio, [Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1802]
|Atlas to the "most important account of the exploration of the Far Northwest coast by the Spanish" (Graff), Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de fucat, a work whose authorship is still a subject of debate. The maps were thought by Wagner to surpass those of Vancouver, and were later used by Alexandre von Humboldt. The present copy includes the six portraits and ethnographic studies, along with following maps and plates: (3) Continuacion de la Carta núm. 2 desde la salida de las Goletas hasta la isla de Unalaska. (4) Carta plana de los reconocimientos hechos por el Capitan Sebastian Vizcaino. (5) Plano del puerto de San Diego. (6) Idem del puerto y bahía de Monterey. (7) Idem de la cala de los Amigos en la entrada de Nutka. (8) Idem del puerto de Mulgrave. (9) Idem del puerto del Desengaňo. (11) Vista de lo interior de la cala de los Amigos y establicimiento espaňol en la entrada de Nutka.