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COREAL, François. Voyages…aux Indes Occidentales… avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh & le Voyage de Narborough a la Mer du Sud par le Detroit de Magellan. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard, 1722.
3 volumes in two, 12mo (158 x 95 mm). Titles printed in red and black, 19 engravings including maps and plans, mostly folding (map of Africa with verso repair). (Second and third titles browned). Full contemporary calf, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands, completely gilt (few compartments reinforced and with new gilt). Provenance: Laplagne Barris (bookplates and labels).
This title, which claims to be the translation of a Spanish original by Francois Coreal, who may or may not have actually existed as no evidence of a Spanish original has been found, and the text itself is primarily plagiarized from French explorer Jean de Lery’s 1578 “Histoire d'un Voyage Faict en la Terre du Bresil, Autrement dite Amerique,” along with several assorted passages from Sir Walter Raleigh. Alden and Landis 722; Borba de Moraes I:214; Palau 61956; Sabin 16781.