May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(TAHITI.) Andia y Varela, José. Relacion del Viage hecho a la Isla de Otahiti, y sus ajacentes, para el Reconocimiento de Mar. manuscript in spanish, written in neat cursive script in another hand in black ink on laid paper. [6], 111, [3] pages, including 3 blank leaves. 218x154 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 roan, spine rubbed, ends chipped, covers detached; contents clean. Np, circa 1800?

Additional Details

This lot and the next are early transcriptions of accounts of expeditions from Peru to Tahiti in the early 1770s as part of an ultimately abandoned colonization effort by Spain.