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QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614) [MEMORIAL:] Señor Cap...

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QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614) [MEMORIAL:] Señor Cap...

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ca. 99.889 $ - 149.834 $
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QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614). [MEMORIAL:] Señor. Capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. V[uestra] Magestad me mandó despachar dos vezes, la segunda a mi satisfacion … . [Madrid: January 1613].
QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614). [MEMORIAL:] Señor. Capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. V[uestra] Magestad me mandó despachar dos vezes, la segunda a mi satisfacion … . [Madrid: January 1613]. Hitherto unrecorded copy of the Thirteenth Memorial; only one other copy is known to survive. A mong the most important of all printed Australiana, Quirós’s presentation memorials petition his patron, King Philip III of Spain, to sponsor further expeditions to the southern hemisphere in order to explore fully ‘Terra Australis’. Quirós had discovered in 1605 what he believed to be a continent and named it after the monarch, and he devoted the rest of his life petitioning for a return to claim the lands of the South Sea for God and for Spain. Folio (311 x 216mm). 4 pages, a bifolium. Disbound. Provenance : contemporary manuscript annotation in black ink on final page ‘del Capitan quiro’. The Portugese navigator Pedro Quirós composed about 50 memorials setting out his case for expeditions to the south seas, and had 14 privately printed, doubtless to add gravitas to the requests contained therein. He himself explained that when he had the means, he had them printed and when not, he had them copied out by hand, to present to the Council of State and the Council of Indies. Of the 14 printed presentation memorials, editions of 13 of them survive, almost exclusively in public institutions. Later derivative editions and translations followed when copies of the presentation memorials fell into hands outside the Council of State, but original presentation copies are scarce, the King and his Councils having made a concerted effort to restrict their circulation: in 1610 the Council of the Indies ordered Quirós to recall printed copies of his memorials, which had begun to capture the attention of a wider audience. No printer can be officially identified for the presentation memorials; they are assumed to have been published in Madrid, where the court resided. Similarly, none of the memorials is dated; rather, references by Quirós in the memorial text to contemporary events have been used to reconstruct a dated sequence. The Thirteenth Memorial, presented in January 1613, seeks to reaffirm the importance of the proposed expedition and emphasizes it as a spiritual endeavor. Audacious plans are put forward to finance the expedition, so that the outlay for the king would be less than ‘the cost of a sheet of paper’. Amongst these are plans for controlled inflation by minting coins in Peru, with further suggestions that he might gather funds from those raised by Spanish mendicant friars and, indeed, those envisaging using church property – ‘the fountains, large candlesticks, braziers and cups – I do not mean the gold and silver ones that are of no use – but those made of brass, tin and copper, as well as iron grilles and door knockers, half of the bells’ to fund the expedition. RARE: only one other copy of the Thirteenth Memorial is known, in the State Library of New South Wales (Q61/7). Kelly 732. Literature: Dunn, F. M., Quiros Memorials; a catalogue of memorials by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1607-1615 in the Dixson and Mitchell Libraries (Sydney, 1961) Kelly, Celsus, Calendar of Documents; Spanish voyages in the South Pacific from Alvaro de Mendaña to Alejandro Malaspina 1567-1794 (Madrid, 1965) Pinochet de la Barra, Oscar, Memoriales de las Indias Australes (Madrid, 1990) Sanz, Carlos, Australia; su descubrimiento y denominación (Madrid, 1963)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 123
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Datum:
01.12.2016
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
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Beschreibung:

QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614). [MEMORIAL:] Señor. Capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. V[uestra] Magestad me mandó despachar dos vezes, la segunda a mi satisfacion … . [Madrid: January 1613].
QUIROS, Pedro Fernández de (1565-1614). [MEMORIAL:] Señor. Capitan Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. V[uestra] Magestad me mandó despachar dos vezes, la segunda a mi satisfacion … . [Madrid: January 1613]. Hitherto unrecorded copy of the Thirteenth Memorial; only one other copy is known to survive. A mong the most important of all printed Australiana, Quirós’s presentation memorials petition his patron, King Philip III of Spain, to sponsor further expeditions to the southern hemisphere in order to explore fully ‘Terra Australis’. Quirós had discovered in 1605 what he believed to be a continent and named it after the monarch, and he devoted the rest of his life petitioning for a return to claim the lands of the South Sea for God and for Spain. Folio (311 x 216mm). 4 pages, a bifolium. Disbound. Provenance : contemporary manuscript annotation in black ink on final page ‘del Capitan quiro’. The Portugese navigator Pedro Quirós composed about 50 memorials setting out his case for expeditions to the south seas, and had 14 privately printed, doubtless to add gravitas to the requests contained therein. He himself explained that when he had the means, he had them printed and when not, he had them copied out by hand, to present to the Council of State and the Council of Indies. Of the 14 printed presentation memorials, editions of 13 of them survive, almost exclusively in public institutions. Later derivative editions and translations followed when copies of the presentation memorials fell into hands outside the Council of State, but original presentation copies are scarce, the King and his Councils having made a concerted effort to restrict their circulation: in 1610 the Council of the Indies ordered Quirós to recall printed copies of his memorials, which had begun to capture the attention of a wider audience. No printer can be officially identified for the presentation memorials; they are assumed to have been published in Madrid, where the court resided. Similarly, none of the memorials is dated; rather, references by Quirós in the memorial text to contemporary events have been used to reconstruct a dated sequence. The Thirteenth Memorial, presented in January 1613, seeks to reaffirm the importance of the proposed expedition and emphasizes it as a spiritual endeavor. Audacious plans are put forward to finance the expedition, so that the outlay for the king would be less than ‘the cost of a sheet of paper’. Amongst these are plans for controlled inflation by minting coins in Peru, with further suggestions that he might gather funds from those raised by Spanish mendicant friars and, indeed, those envisaging using church property – ‘the fountains, large candlesticks, braziers and cups – I do not mean the gold and silver ones that are of no use – but those made of brass, tin and copper, as well as iron grilles and door knockers, half of the bells’ to fund the expedition. RARE: only one other copy of the Thirteenth Memorial is known, in the State Library of New South Wales (Q61/7). Kelly 732. Literature: Dunn, F. M., Quiros Memorials; a catalogue of memorials by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1607-1615 in the Dixson and Mitchell Libraries (Sydney, 1961) Kelly, Celsus, Calendar of Documents; Spanish voyages in the South Pacific from Alvaro de Mendaña to Alejandro Malaspina 1567-1794 (Madrid, 1965) Pinochet de la Barra, Oscar, Memoriales de las Indias Australes (Madrid, 1990) Sanz, Carlos, Australia; su descubrimiento y denominación (Madrid, 1963)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 123
Auktion:
Datum:
01.12.2016
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
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