Continuacion de los reconocimientos hechos En La Costa No. De America por los Buques de S.M. en varias Campanas desde 1774 a 1792. Cardano Scul. Morata esc. Numero 3.

• Main Authors: Espinosa y Tello, J., Cardano; Morata
• Other Authors: Rumsey Collection
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1802
• Subjects: Pacific; Estrecho; Arrowsmith; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
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Reconnaisance along the west coast from Vancouver Island to the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Uncolored. 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." 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."