{"product_id":"espinosa-y-tello-jose-de-1763-1815-carta-general-para-las-navegaciones-a-la-india-oriental-por-el-mar-del-sur","title":"ESPINOSA Y TELLO, José de (1763–1815). Carta General para las Navegaciones a la India Oriental por el Mar del Sur...","description":"\u003cp\u003eESPINOSA Y TELLO, José de (1763–1815).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarta General para las Navegaciones a la India Oriental por el Mar del Sur y el\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrande Océano que separa el Continente Americano del Asiático, construida según\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003elas derrotas, observaciones y trabajos de los más célebres navegantes españoles, y\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003epublicada por orden del Exmo. Sr. D. Guadalupe Victoria, Primer Presidente de la\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRepública.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMexico City: República Mexicana, 1825.\u003cbr\u003eEngraved hydrographic chart. Separately issued. First Mexican edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rare and highly important Mexican sea chart of the Pacific, published in Mexico\u003cbr\u003eCity in 1825 by order of Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the newly independent Mexican Republic. This remarkable chart records the Pacific coast of the Americas, extending from Central America and Mexico northward along Alta California, the Northwest Coast, British Columbia, Alaska, and across the North Pacific toward the Hawaiian Islands. It was intended not as a decorative map, but as a working navigational chart for voyages across the “Mar del Sur” and the great ocean separating America from Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chart is the first Mexican edition of José de Espinosa y Tello’s great Pacific\u003cbr\u003echart, first issued in London in the 1810s. Its title makes clear that it was compiled\u003cbr\u003efrom the routes, observations, and labors of the most celebrated Spanish navigators.\u003cbr\u003eIn this sense, it is one of the most eloquent cartographic survivals of the Spanish\u003cbr\u003ehydrographic tradition in the Pacific — a tradition built from the voyages of\u003cbr\u003eMalaspina, Galiano, Valdés, and other Spanish naval explorers whose work defined\u003cbr\u003ethe mapping of the Pacific coast at the close of the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts publication in Mexico in 1825 gives the chart exceptional historical resonance.\u003cbr\u003eOnly a few years after independence, the new Mexican Republic republished a great\u003cbr\u003eSpanish imperial navigation chart under its own authority. The map therefore\u003cbr\u003estands at a fascinating political and scientific threshold: it is at once a product of\u003cbr\u003eSpanish naval science and an assertion of Mexico’s inherited command of Pacific\u003cbr\u003egeography. Guadalupe Victoria’s name in the title is especially significant, placing\u003cbr\u003ethe chart among the earliest major cartographic publications of independent\u003cbr\u003eMexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chart relates closely to the world of the 1802 Relación del Viage hecho por las\u003cbr\u003eGoletas Sutil y Mexicana, the celebrated text and atlas concerning the Spanish\u003cbr\u003ereconnaissance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, and\u003cbr\u003ethe Pacific Northwest. That work, generally associated with Martín Fernández de\u003cbr\u003eNavarrete and often attributed to José de Espinosa y Tello, records one of the most\u003cbr\u003eimportant Spanish expeditions to the Northwest Coast and preserves the maps,\u003cbr\u003eplans, and ethnographic plates resulting from Spain’s late eighteenth-century\u003cbr\u003eexploration of the region. The present 1825 chart is not part of that publication;\u003cbr\u003erather, it belongs to the same hydrographic tradition on a grander Pacific scale.\u003cbr\u003eWhere the Sutil y Mexicana atlas focuses on the Northwest Coast and the Spanish response to British and Russian activity, this chart broadens the field to the whole navigational world of the eastern Pacific and the routes toward Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major survival from the scientific mapping of the Pacific, this chart is especially\u003cbr\u003edesirable for collections devoted to Spanish exploration, Pacific navigation, the\u003cbr\u003eNorthwest Coast, California, Mexico, and the cartographic formation of the modern\u003cbr\u003ePacific world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arader Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45730930262060,"sku":null,"price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1156\/7956\/files\/EspinosayTello_1.jpg?v=1782751199","url":"https:\/\/aradernyc.com\/products\/espinosa-y-tello-jose-de-1763-1815-carta-general-para-las-navegaciones-a-la-india-oriental-por-el-mar-del-sur","provider":"Arader Galleries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}