Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/149
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cartagena—continued. [140] Diario de todo lo ocurrido en la expugnacion de los fuertes de Bocachica, y Sitio de la Ciudad de Cartegana de las Indias. 23 pp. Small gto. New boards. (Madrid), 1741. &5 5s Account of the defeat of the British expedition under Admiral Vernon and General Went- worth sent in March 1741 for the conquest of Cartagena in Columbia. [141] Another Edition. 12 pp. Small 4to. Half calf. Barcelona, Joseph Texido, 1741. &5 5s [142] Diario di tutti i Successi seguiti nell’ Espugnazione de’ Forti di Boccacica, e nell’ assedio della Citta di Cartagena in America. 16 pp. 4to. Boards. Rome, 1741. £4 10s DutcH OPERATIONS IN THE PaciFic. [143] CASOS NOTABLES, sucedidos en las Costas de la Ciudad de Lima, en las Indias, y como el armada Olandesa procurava coger el armadilla nuestra, que baxa con la plata de ordinario a Cartagena, y se passo dexadolos burlados: desde el mes de Junio deste ano passado de 1624. Folio. 4 pp. Half morocco. Madrid, Bernadino de Guzman, 1625. £5 5s An interesting “relation” telling of the noteworthy events that had occurred off the coast of Peru, near Lima, and of how the Dutch fleet tried to capture the small Spanish fleet carrying the silver ore to Carthagena and how the Spanish fleet escaped. The confession made by a Greek soldier who was captured, and who had been with the Dutch fleet under Jaque Ermiet, concerning the Dutch losses, their rations, and other matters. The relation traces the move- ments of this Dutch fleet from its leaving Holland on April 29, 1624, its touching at the Guinea Coast, sailing round into the “South Sea,” and the sending of a vessel to Count Maurice of Nassau telling him of the expedition’s progress, etc. [144] CASTANEDA, LENOIR, WARDEN, FARCY, and ST. PRIEST. Antiquités Mexi- caines. Relation des trois Expéditions du Capitaine Dupaix, 1805-7, pour la recherche des Antiquités du Pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque, etc. With Atlas of 163 coloured plates. 2 vols. Large folio. Fine copy in full contem- porary purple morocco, gilt back, sides and edges. Paris, 1834. £27 10s PROPOSALS FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THREE CITIES IN VENEZUELA. [145] CASTEJON (V. de). Sefior. Fray Victorian de Castejon, Religioso Capuchino, y Procurador de las Missiones, que esta Religion tiene en la Provincia de Cumana ... dize, etc. Folio. 12 pp. (Madrid, c. 1720). £8 10s A very scarce and interesting relacion giving an account of troubles with the Caribees and other Indian tribes and proposing the foundation of three new frontier cities in Venezuela to keep them in check. These cities are probably Maturin, Aragua and Barrancas which occupy the locations described in this work. [146] CASTEL MELHOR (Conde de). Relacao Verdadeira dos Sucessos do Conde de Castel Melhor, preso na cidade de Cartagena de Indias, etc. With large woodcut coat-of-arms on title. Small gto. 24 pp. Levant morocco, gilt. Lisboa, 1642. &8 15s [147] CATHERWOOD (F.). Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. With 25 finely coloured plates, mounted as drawings. Special Issue. Large folio. Crimson morocco, gilt, g.e. (London, c. 1844). £26 [ 20 ]