Author: SCHMIDEL, ULRICH (1510?-1579?)
Title: Viaje al Rio de la Plata, 1534-1554. Notas bibliograficas y biograficas par Bartolome Mitre. Prologo, traduccion y anotaciones por Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo. [With reproductions of the original illustrations and maps.]
Description: Buenos Aires : Cabaut y Cia 1903. 1st Edition in this form. Provenance; from the library of Victoria Aguirre with her signature and bookplate. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and toned as with age. Remains an uncommonly good example. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 499 pages; Fine facsimile reprint. Series [Biblioteca de la Junta de Historia y Numisma´tica Americana. tom. 1.]. Physical description; xv. 499 p. [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Translation of the German manuscript in the Hof- und staatsbibliothek. Munich. as pub. in 1889 by V. Langmantel in Bibl. des Literar. vereins in Stuttgart. v. 184. The plates are facsimiles (partly reduced) of those in the Latin ed. of the author's work. pub. by L. Hulsius. Nuremberg. 1599. incl. the t.p. the dedication to the Bishop of Bamberg. the map and the 'Contrafactur Virich Schmidels' (with his autograph reprod. from the original in the Archives in Asuncion. Paraguay). Includes bibliographical references. In Spanish. Contents; Viaje de Ulrich Schmidel -- Epilogo del traductor -- Apendices: A. Carta de Francisco de Villalta (1556). B. Memoria de Pero Hernandez (1545). C. Informacion de los meritos y servicios del capitan Gonzalo de Mendoza (1545). D. Carta de Dona Isabel de Guevara (1556). E. Carta de Domingo de Irala (1541). F. Carta de Domingo de Irala (1555). G. Carta de obligacion de Hernan Baez y otros a favor de Leon Pancaldo (1538). H. Obligacion de Diego de la Isla a favor de Gregorio de Leyes (1539). I. Varias referencias. J. Juramento de obediencia al capitan Francisco Ruiz Galan. por don Pedro de Mendoza (1538). K. Carta de poder de Ruiz Galan (1539). L. Carta de obligacion otorgada por Pedro Formizeda a favor de Gregorio Leyes (1539). M. Titulo de vehedor para Jno. D.S. Despinossa (Juan de Salazar. 1536). N. y O. Instruccion de Mendoza a Ruiz Gala´n (1537). P. Carta de Martin Gonzalez al emperador (1556). Q. Informacion de Francisco Ruiz Galan (1538). Subjects; Mendoza. Pedro de. 1487?-1537. Indians of South America. America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish. Argentina - History - 1535-1617. Buenos Aires (Argentina) - History. Paraguay - History - To 1811. Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) - Discovery and exploration. America - Early accounts to 1600. South America. Sixteenth Century. Description and Travel. Historical Sources. Pictorial Works.Weight in Kg appr.:

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