Heading: (Mendaña de Neira, Alvaro)
Author: [Gallego, Hernando, Pedro Sarmiento, Alvaro Davendaña, and Alvaro de Mendaña]
Title: The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Date Published: 1901
Description:

[8], lxxxvi, 191; [7], 196-482 pp. Edited with Introduction and Notes by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst. and Basil Thomson. With photogravure frontispieces, photogravure and other illustrated plates. 5 maps, 4 of which are folding, 2 of which are colored, and 2 of which are loose and in larger format, contained in pocket at rear of Volume II. (4to) 26x19.8 cm (10¼x8"), original half vellum and cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, gilt rules stamped on vellum, fore-edge and foot untrimmed. One of 100 copies printed on large paper at the Bedford Press.

Many pages unopened. Larger maps include: The Solomon Islands Showing the Track of Mendaña's Ships and of the Brigantine 1568, color outlines, 47.2x69 cm (18½x;27¼"); The Pacific Ocean Showing the Course Followed by Mendaña's Ships in the Discovery of the Solomon Islands 1567-1569, color outlines, 45.5x88 cm (17¾x34½").

Mild soiling to vellum; a few hints of foxing to leaves and loose maps, small stubtear and one split at fold to colored Ortelius map.