Regimiento de nauegación q[ue] mando hazer el Rei nuestro señor por orden de su Conseio Real de las Indias a Andres Garcia de Cespedes su cosmografo maior, siendo presidente en el dicho consejo el conde de Lemos.
Contributors: Consejo de Indias (Spain); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: En casa de Iuan de la Cuesta
Published: 1606
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800; Nautical astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Hydrography -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- South America -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800; Latin America -- Boundaries -- Early works to 1800; Spain -- Boundaries -- Portugal -- Early works to 1800; Portugal -- Boundaries -- Spain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Regimiento de navegación q[ue] mando hazer el Rei nvestro señor; Regimiento de navegación que mando hacer el Rei nuestro señor; Regimiento de Nauegacion; Hydrografia; Segunda parte, en que se pone una hydrografia que mando hazer Su Majestad a Andres Garcia de Cespedes, su cosmografo mayor
Notes: Theory of navigation and guide to navigation in the Spanish and Portuguese dominions of America. Part 2 treats of hydrography and includes a long final chapter (leaves 172-184) on sailing in the West Indies and from Spain to the southern tip and Pacific coast of South America. Includes also documents concerning border disputes between Spain and Portugal in America.

Engraved t.p. (etching) with arms and vignette of a ship.

Imprint from colophon.

In two parts. T.p. for part 2 is printed on leaf [115]; has woodcut coat of arms.

Signatures: [paragraph sign]⁴ A-2G⁶ 2H⁴.

Engraved world map bound in between leaves 125 and 126. Other illustrations (etchings and woodcuts) include many diagrams and tables; woodcut initials, head pieces and tail pieces.

LC Copy 1 has an extra copy of the engraved world map bound in, in a vertical orientation, before signature A.  Engraved world map at leaf 126 is bound in horizontally and folded. In vellum binding with red leather label; red sprinkled edges; ties lost. Has Library of Congress accession no. 37375 dated [19]05.

Brunet, vol. 1, col. 1756

Palau y Dulcet, vol. 6, p. 80-81, item 98619

Sabin, vol. 3, p. 461, item 11718