de celles des Creoles, des Metifs, des Mulâtres, des Indiens, & des Négres . . . A
Amsterdam, chez
Paul Marret, Marchand Libraire,
m. dcc. xxi
. [1721.]
2 vol. 12mo. 201 and 164 leaves, 16 engraved folded maps and plates; a copy of this edition was not seen for collation.
Sabin 26307.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Quérard III, 232.
This edition not in Field.
Thomas Gage, d. 1656, intended by his father to be a Jesuit, eventually joined the Dominican order, and determined to go to the Philippine
Islands as a missionary. He left Cadiz on July 2, 1625, and was smuggled on board in an empty biscuit barrel owing to an order
of the King of Spain forbidding any Englishman to go to the Indies. Gage did not go to the Philippines but remained in Central
America. In 1637 he returned to England, became a Protestant and joined the Parliamentary side. He eventually died in Jamaica.
The first edition of this work was published in English in 1648, and was written to give the world a description of Spanish
America, from which countries all foreigners had been excluded by the Spanish authorities. The first edition of a French translation
appeared in 1676.
Adrien Baillet, 1649-1706, French author, is supposed to have been the translator.
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Noticias Americanas de Don Antonio de Ulloa.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 125, no. 215, as above.
ULLOA,
Antonio de.
Noticias Americanas: Entretenimientos Phisicos-Historicos, sobre la América Meridional, y la Septentrianal Oriental. Comparacion
general de los Territorios, Climas, y Produciones en las tres especies, Vegetales, Animales, y Minerales: con Relacion particular
de las Petrificaciones de Cuerpos Marinos de los Indios naturales de aquellos Paises, sus costumbres, y usos: de las Antiguedades:
Discurso sobre la Lengua, y sobre el modo en que pasaron los primeros Pobladores. Su Autor Don Antonio de Ulloa, Comendador de Ocaña, en el Orden de Santiago, Gefe de Esquadra de la Real Armada, de la Real Sociedad de Londres, y de las
Reales Academias de la Ciencias de Stockolmo, Berlín, &c.
En
Madrid: en la Imprenta de Don
Francisco Manuel de Mena,
m.dcc.lxxii
. Con las Licencias necesarias. [1772.]
E143 .U42
First Edition. 4to. 222 leaves, the last with the
Erratas Esenciales de este Libro.
Sabin 97687.
Palau VII, 83.
Medina 4600.
Winsor VIII, 344 (not this edition).
Field 1584.
John Carter Brown 1844.
This book is entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue, and is in the list of books relative to Spanish America already in his possession sent to Miguel Lardizabel y Uribe on July 6, 1787. Jefferson
was conversant with the works of Ulloa before June 7, 1785, on which day he wrote to the Marquis de Chastellux: “
. . . as to the Aboriginal man of America, I know of no respectable evidence on which the opinion of his inferiority of genius
has been founded but that of Don Ulloa . . . Don Ulloa’s testimony is of the most respectable. he wrote of what he saw. but
he saw the Indian of South America only, and that after he had passed through ten generations of slavery. it is very unfair,
from this sample, to judge of the natural genius of this race of men: and after supposing that Don Ulloa had not sufficiently
calculated the allowance which should be made for this circumstance, we do him no injury in considering the picture he draws
of the present Indians of S. America as no picture of what their ancestors were 300 years ago . . .
”
Antonio de Ulloa, 1716-1795, Spanish scientist, naval officer and author, was appointed in 1735 by the King of Spain a member with Jorge Juan
of the French scientific expedition to Peru, where he lived for nine years. He remained in Spain for some years after his
return, but in 1766 was appointed governor of Louisiana, a position he held until 1768.
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