ADVENTURES OF A TRAVELLER TOLD BY HIMSELF.

Description:
- Book written in Spanish. The contents are very well structured and of very high interest.
- The book is profusely illustrated with engravings outside the text. There are 10 on thick pink paper and 23 on thin white paper. Many of the engravings are of very good quality.
- The author of the book is unknown.
- There is a reference to Pablo Alonso de Avecilla as a possible author, although we believe that this possibility is remote.
- Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco is one of the brothers who published the book. He was also a writer, so there is a strong possibility that he could be its author.
Parts of Contents:
- Single volume. Spanish copy, with complete text.
- Flyleaves. Title page. Legal page. Chapter I: The Wound. Chapter II: Julia. Chapter III: Filial Love. Chapter IV: Encounter. Chapter V: The Secret. Chapter VI: The Two Hurricanes. Chapter VII: Combat. Chapter VIII: Return - Sharks. Chapter IX: Juanita - Ascent of the Peak - Hurricane. Chapter X: East Indies - War with the monkeys. Chapter XI: Hunting of the Royal Tiger, the Panther of Asia and the Jaguar or Cheetah of America. Chapter XII: Water and Fire - Anthropophagous. Chapter XIII: Borneo. Chapter XIV: The Wave and the Drama. Chapter XV: Chaos. Chapter XVI: Sir Wiliams Barkler - A virgin forest. Chapter XVII: Calmness. Chapter XVIII: St. Helena - Sunset. Chapter XIX: Sadness. Chapter XX: Tongues - How the archipelagos have been peopled. Chapter XXI: The explorers. Chapter XXII: Times of the principal discoveries. Chapter XXIV: Christopher Columbus. Chapter XXV: Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Chapter XXVI: Ferdinand Magellan. Chapter XXVII: Don Pedro de Alvarado. Chapter XXVIII: Francisco Pizarro. Chapter XXIX: Pedro de Valdivia - Vicente Yañez Pinzon - Pedro Fernández de Quirós - Alfonso de Ojeda. Chapter XXX: Santiago Cook - Luis Antonio de Bougainville - Juan de Bethencourt. Index of Chapters. Placement of loose plates.
- Has 33 engravings, all of them outside the text.
Description of the book:
- Sewn binding of regular execution, with untreated guillotined cuts.
- Text and Illustrations in single colour printing in black, very good ink, well centred and with good margins.
- Book printed on white paper, of medium thickness and regular quality.
- Hard covers in green half leather and black paper.
- Spine with gilt horizontal irons. The name of the printer 'AYGUAL DE IZCO' (as if he were the author of the book), the title 'AVENTURAS DE UN VIAJERO' and the name of a previous owner 'E. CHUECOS'.
- Flyleaves with thin water paper.

Conservation and Damage:
- General condition bad and fatigued. Binding sewn in regular condition.
- The engraving on page 483 is repeated at the end of the book, printed on thick pink paper.
- The two leaves corresponding to pages 331, 332 and 333, 334 are torn, with approximately one third of each of them missing. Reproductions of the two incomplete pages have been inserted in order to provide the full text.
- Pages 393, 394 are torn without affecting the text and have been repaired.
- The pages are generally in good condition, with small tears and stains.
- The title page has the name, written in pen, of a previous owner, coinciding with the name stamped on the spine.
- The book has several leaves and engravings with notes, annotations and signatures, scratches and various marks, both in ink and pencil. An example can be seen in the photographs of the backs of the engravings between pages 328 and 331.
- Due to rubbing, the covers have lost some of their paper, mainly at the edges. The tips are very deteriorated.
- The cuts are in fair condition, with some soiling. The upper edge is slightly dirtier.
- The book has not suffered from external aggressions such as humidity, insect attacks, rodents, etc.
- The book shows wear and tear typical of it

Comments:
- Both the measurements and the weight are approximate.
- The book has not been located in the stock of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, according to the search engine of the web page.
- It is very difficult to find in the book market.
- In order to take the photos of the Inside Pages, they have been clamped with tweezers.
- The tones of the colours in the photos are not the same as the tones of the real colours.
- The book for sale is the one that corresponds to the photos.
- The description is not a detailed exposition of the book.
- The data provided here are personal opinions not contrasted.
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