(WEST INDIES) Garcia de Cespedes Andres Regimiento de Navega

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(WEST INDIES.) Garcia de Cespedes, Andres. Regimiento de Navegacion que mando hazer el Rei nuestro Señor por orden de su Consejo Real de las Indias. Illustrated title page, numerous illustrations and tables in text; lacks map. Folio, 19th-century full morocco gilt; minor intermittent foxing and dampstaining; John Carter Brown gilt initials and arms on covers, and his bookplate with release stamp on front pastedown. (JCB) Madrid, 1606

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First and only edition of an early Spanish navigation guide. "Includes a guide to the navigation in the West Indies, and some curious documents relating to the dispute with Portugal about the line of demarcation of the Spanish and Portuguese dominions in America"--Sabin 11718. European Americana 606/50; JCB II:39 (this copy); Medina, BHA II:515; Palau 98619.