Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GARCIA (GREGORIO)—continued. origin of the Americans, and the manner in which this New World was peopled, is gathered here.” Garcta’s opinion, as opposed to the special theories of other writers, was that the American Indians drew their origin from various races of the old world, including Chinese and Tartars. But all his learning on this subject is of less value than the positive facts concerning the native tribes, which he drew partly from his own experiences in the New World, and partly from a MS. work by Juan de Vetanzos (one of the companions of Pizarro, and a man specially skilled in the native languages), which was in the possession of Garcia, and which has never been pub- lished. The fifth book of Garcia’s work contains the native Indian accounts of their origin, and is divided into sections which treat separately of the various distinct tribes of Mexico and Peru. PRINTED AT THE ARMY PRESS, CAPTURED FROM THE ENEMY. 130 GARCIA CAMBA (Andres). Apuntes para la Historia de la Revolucion del Peru. Small 4to, half calf, g. e., by Riviére. Lima, Imprenta del Ejercito, tomada a los Enemigos, 1824. £6 6s Palau’s Manual, Vol. Ill, p. 309. Medina, Lima, 3785. Not in Sabin. A scarce pamphlet dealing with the war of liberation in Peru, from the Spanish point of view, during the years 1820 to 1823. Mostly relating to operations against San Martin. Also referring to O'Higgins, Cochrane, etc. 130A GARCIA DE CESPEDES (Andres). Regimiento de Navegacion, que mando haser el Rei nuestro sefor, por orden de su Conseio real de las Indias. Engraved title, with galleon, folding world-map, and numerous diagrams. Folio, original vellum. Madrid, Juan de la Cuesta, 1606. £75 Sabin, 11718. Palau’s Manual, Vol. III, p. 310. A scarce early Spanish work on the theory of Navigation. The second part (Continued over) -