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Jane, Cecil (editor)

A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-West Coast of America Being the Narrative of the Voyage Made in the Year 1792 by the Schooners Sutil and Mexicana to Explore the Strait of Fuca

London Argonaut Press 1930, 1st edition limited 525 numbered copies. Hardcover Very good. 1930, 1st edition limited 525 numbered copies. (Hardcover) xiv,142,[1]pp.. Very good. Small Quarto. Folding frontispiece, 5 illustrations, and folding map. Original gilt lettered vellum spine backed orange cloth boards with gilt decoration on front; unopened, with orange ribbon marker; boards slightly bowed; minor soiling to vellum spine. Copy #51/525. Howes G-18 (under Galiano); also attributed to Jose Espinoso y tello, see Hill p.99. Narrative of the expedition of the schooners Sutil and Mexicana to the N.W. Coast of America, originally printed in 1802 by Martin Fernandez de Navarrete.The last voyage up the west coast of North America undertaken by Spain. Translated with an Introduction by Cecil Jane. Series: Argonaut Press 10.

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