Señor : el capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, con este son ocho los memoriales que a V.M. he presen...
Señor : el capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, con este son ocho los memoriales que a V.M. he presen...
Señor : el capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, con este son ocho los memoriales que a V.M. he presentado en razon de las poblacion q se deue hazer en las tierras que V.M. mandò que descubriesse en la parte Austral incognita ...
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
[Madrid : P.F. de Queirós, 1609]
Uniform title
Alternative title
Quiros presentation memorial
Date
1609]
Call Numbers
SAFE/Q60/2
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
Spanish
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
2 leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Publication information
Publisher
[Madrid : P.F. de Queirós, 1609]
Date Published
1609]
Access and use
Access Conditions
Dixson Library copy: Supervised access only by appointment through Manager Access & Information.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Fifth in the series of fourteen known Quirós Presentation memorials, printed between 1607 and 1614 at Quirós' expense for presentation at the Council of the Indies.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Señor : el capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, con este son ocho los memoriales que a V.M. he presentado en razon de las poblacion q se deue hazer en las tierras que V.M. mandò que descubriesse en la parte Austral incognita ...
Portion of title
Incipit: Con este son ocho los memoriales que a V.M. he presentado
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Title from beginning of text.
Dated by Dunn to early 1609 and by Kelly to Dec. 1608 or Jan. 1609.
Woodcut initial.
First printed edition of the key Eighth memorial - the eighth Memorial to have been prepared, and consequently ever since known as the "Eighth", although it was the fifth Memorial to be printed.
Dixson Library copy has the armorial bookplate of Sir William Dixson. Auction label with number "3" at top left of front pastedown; "B+S"in manuscript at foot of the recto of both leaves. Sheet from Quaritch sale catalogue, no. 671, describing the item, tipped in. Bound in late 19th/early 20th-century black morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London...
Citation / References Note
Dunn, D. M. Quiros memorials: a catalogue of memorials by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1607-1615 in the Dixson and Mitchell Libraries, Sydney (1961), p.16.
Kelly, Celsus. Calendar of documents : Spanish voyages in the South Pacific ... (1965), 573.
Additional physical form availability note
Online at the State Library of NSW.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/Q60/2
Record Identifier
74VvGJqkoy3l
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvGJqkoy3l
Other Identifiers
DDC
919.04
MMS ID
991012555299702626
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