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DUNCAN, William Augustine.

Account of a Memorial presented to His Majesty by Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quir, concerning the population and discovery of the fourth part of the world, Australia the Unknown, its great riches and fertility, discovered by the same Captain.

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 With licence of the Royal council of Pampeluna printed by Charles de Labayen anno 1610. From the Spanish. With an introductory notice. Sydney : Thomas Richards, 1874. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed), lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, book label of David G. L. Worland, pp. 30; [blank]; (8, reproducing the Quiros Memorial), foxing, a very good copy.

A facsimile with notes of the 1610 Pampeluna Quiros Memorial, being the first ‘deriviative’ Memorial based on the  “Eighth Memorial” that Quirós had presented to the King in 1609. It was this Eighth Memorial which was widely translated and incorporated into other anthologies of voyages.

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