COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Title Page: Atlas para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana.
Obj Height cm:
32
Obj Width cm:
23
Note:
The Spanish "Vancouver." Atlas volume only, first edition. Sometimes attributed to Dionisio Alcala Galiano. The title of the text volume is "Relacion del Viage Hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en al ano 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca..." The last and very important voyage up the Pacific coast to be undertaken by Spain is detailed in the nine maps and eight plates of the atlas. Galiano and Cayetano Valdes led the expedition, arriving in the northwest at the same time as Vancouver. Although the maps were published four years after the Vancouver maps, Wagner considers them in many respects to be superior, and Humboldt used them in his Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne. Wagner further states: "The general impression today...is that the English discoveries of Vancouver were published four years before those of the Spaniards. This...is a misapprehension... The principal reason, however, why the nomenclature and geography of Vancouver came to occupy the field was that his maps were extensively copied by the famous English cartographer, Aaron Arrowsmith, and later by the English Admiralty."
Reference:
P1221; Streeter 2458; Graff 1262; Howes G18(under Galiano, "dd"); Cowen, p.198; Sabin 69221; Wagner, Northwest Coast, p225-233, p252-254, vol 1, and #861, vol 2; Lowery 95, 704; Cook, "Flood Tide of Empire."
Full Title:
(Title Page to) Atlas para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del Estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792, Publicado en 1802.
List No:
4476A
Series No:
1
Pub Date:
1802
Pub Title:
Atlas para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del Estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792, Publicado en 1802.
Pub Reference:
P1221; Streeter 2458; Graff 1262; Howes G18(under Galiano, "dd"); Cowen, p.198; Sabin 69221; Wagner, Northwest Coast, p225-233, p252-254, vol 1, and #861, vol 2; Lowery 95, 704; Cook, "Flood Tide of Empire."
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
4476.000
Pub Maps:
9
Pub Height cm:
32
Pub Width cm:
23
Image No:
4476A
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 1998
Publisher Location:
Madrid
Publisher:
Imprenta Real
Type:
Title Page
Country:
United States
Region:
West Coast
Publication Author:
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Pub Type:
Exploration Book
Author:
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Date:
1802
Title Page: Atlas para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana.
