Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

A$60,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and rag paper; title page set within decorative border; pp [22], 392, [4], with 13 folding engraved copper plates (lacking pp. 103 106; and pp. 191 194; plate 11 in facsimile; pp. 195 191 in duplicate), numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, tables, engraved head- and tailpieces; some of the plates with browning or offsetting, occasional very light spotting, title with small hole at fore-edge margin; a very good example, housed in a custom morocco clamshell case, ornately gilt. Extremely rare first edition of the first navigation manual printed in the Philippines. The author, José Gonzalez Cabrera Bueno (c. 1670 after 1733), was an admiral and a master navigator on the route taken by Spanish ships between Acapulco (New Spain) and Manila. His work addresses comprehensively all of the theoretical and practical aspects of navigation; the plates, by the Filipino engraver Nicolás de la Cruz Bagay, illustrate the various instruments used in this science. It also contains extensive mathematical tables and specific sailing directions for the coast of California and west coast of Mexico as far as Acapulco, the Pacific, the ports of Asia, and the route from the Philippin

• Binding: Hardcover

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