GABRIEL DE CARDENAS Z CANO [=GONZALEZ DE BARCIA, ANDRES] and LASSO DE LA VEGA, GARCIA. Ensayo Cronologico, Para La Historia General De La Florida...
Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723. First edition. [and:] De la La Florida del Inca. Historia del adelantado Hernando de Soto, governador y capitan general del Reino de la Florida y de otros heroicos caballeros Españoles, e Indios ... Y El Ensaio Cronologico Que Contiene, Las Sucedidas, hasta en el Año de 1722. Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723. Third edition. Two volumes, uniform old tree calf gilt, edges tinted blue. title printed in red and black, marbled endsheets on binder's waste dated 1811 (the approximate date of the bindings). 12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20.5 cm); [40], 366, [56] pp; folding table; and [32], 268, [12] pp. Some scuffing and wear to bindings, the second volume a bit wormed on the front cover, with a loss to a portion of the label. Generally clean internally.

The first work "Covers early explorations in the whole continent north of Mexico and east of the Pacific coast... The principal authority on Florida itself during its two decades of undisputed Spanish supremacy"--Howes B130. Though called a chronological history of Florida, this work comprises nearly the whole Continent of America north of Mexico" (Sabin). It also covers New Mexico, Sinaloa, Quivira, Virginia, New York, Canada etc. Of special interest, however, is the account of the competition between the French and Spanish for control of Florida in the sixteenth-century, as well as the account of the exploits of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, De Soto, Onate, La Salle and Ponce de Leon. The second work, on the expedition of Hernando de Soto into North America, was first published in Lisbon in 1605. This edition is corrected and contains an index. The first work is European Americana 723/10; Wagner Spanish Southwest 84. The second is Sabin 98745; Palau 354793; Hill 680.

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