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Relacion de un pais que nuevamente se ha descubierto en la America septentrional de mas estendido que es la Europa... Saca à luz en castellano ... don Sebastian Fernandez de Medrano.., en Brusselas en casa de Lamberto Marchant, mercader de libros, 1699. Small 8° 6ll. 86pp. 1 full page engravings signed "Harrewyn fecit": an allegorical representation of four figures of different races (one of them an American Indian) holding up the world. Absent rare folding mapa and other engraving with the coat of arms of Juan de Dios de Silva Mendoza Sandoval.
Palau 112979; Sabin 31374, Alden, 699/104, Medina, BHA, 1995, Harrisse, NF, 184; Howes H416; Paltsits (Hennepin), 56; Peeters Fontainas, 588; Streit, II, 2789; JCB (4) 392-393. The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill University, ed. Edgar Andrew Collard (Montreal 1965). For the map, Philip D. Burden, The Mapping of North America, II, 739.
Extremely rare first Spanish edition (the first edition in French is 1697,… Read More
