LA AUSTRIALIA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO.
The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627). With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other documents by G. S. Parsonson. In two volumes. Pp. xviii+270+xvi+[271]-446, folding frontispiece plus 12 plates (including maps and charts, one folding), 3 full page text maps, 3 tables (2 folding), appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, top fore-corner of lower board Volume II faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrips slightly faded; a little light foxing; The Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966. Hakluyt Second Series, Volumes CXXVI and CXXVII. *De Quiros sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, returning to the 'Austral Lands' [the New Hebrides area] a year later. Item #156535
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