Voyages aux Indes Occidentales [...]. Traduits de l'Espagnol. Avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh, & le voyage de Narbrough à la Mer du Sud par le Détroit de Magellan, &c. Nouvelle édition [...] augmentée d'une nouvelle découverte des Indes Meridionales & des Terres Australes.

2 vol., 12mo: [2]-438-[6], [2]-406-[2] pp. (tear in 3 folding maps exp. underlaid; occ. light soiling).

Contemp. calf, richly gilt spines with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Good copy.

Second edition of this account of travels through the New World, supposedly by the Spanish Fr. Coreal (1648?-1708), whose existence and adventures are doubtful. His account might be a (fictional) compilation of earlier voyages, focussing on Peru and Brazil. "Purported Spanish original has not been traced" (Alden/Landis). The 2nd vol. contains 11 travel stories of i.a. Raleigh, Narbrough and Tasman to Guyana, the South Sea, Patagonia, the Australian regions, Palau, Amazonia, etc. The last 4 texts are not present in the first edition (Amsterdam, the same year). Illustrated with 4 engr. folding maps (North & Middle America, the South Pole region, Travels of Narbrough and "Pays des Moxes", in Amazonia), and 11 engr. full-page plates (of which 6 folding) showing i.a. plants (cassava, cacao, cashew), animals (llama and vicuna, armadillo), a silver or gold mine, an indian vessel, views of Mexico City and San Salvador, and plans of Lima and Callao.
Ref. Alden/Landis 1722/53. - Borba de Moraes I, p. 180. - Leclerc 395. - Palau 61957. - Cp. Sabin 16781.
Prov. Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French mathematician and explorer, famous for his scientific expedition to Peru and down the Amazon 1735-1745 (red armorial stamp on titles). - "Desains, notaire à St. Quentin", i.e. Charles Desains (1704-1781) (traces of torn-out arm. bookpl.). - Hector de Ayala (1906-1995), Cuban ambassador to France (stamps).