Burriel y López, Andrés Marcos (sold)
Andrés Marcos Burriel y López (November 19, 1719 - June 19, 1762) was a Spanish Jesuit historian, epigraphist, philologist, and cleric. He became a key figure of the Spanish Enlightenment, most notable for editing Miguel Venegas' 1757 Noticia de la California, the first dedicated history of Spanish California. He was born in Buenache de Alarcón, Spain, and studied at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid, and was ordained in 1743. He had intended to join the Jesuit missionaries in California but was instead assigned to investigative archival work in Spain, mainly to purge documents from the archives that related to Royal power over church authorities. With the accession of Prime Minister Richard Wall, Burriel was ordered to stop this work and return the documents he had collected; these were seized in 1756. In 1754, Burriel was commissioned to edit and complete Miguel Venegas' unpublished 1730 Empresas Apostólicas, transforming it from a largely hagiographical work into a modern natural history. It was published under Venegas' name in Madrid in 1757 and then translated to English (London, 1759), French (Paris, 1767), and other languages.
Spanish commentary on the Sea of the West.
Mapa de la America Septentl. Asia Oriental y Mar Del Sur Intermedio Formado sobre las Memorias mas recientes y exactas hasta el año de 1754.
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This is a rare 1757 Madrid edition of Joseph Nicolas De l'Isle and Philippe Buache's 1752 map of North America, Siberia, the Arctic, and the North Pacific. The map presents De L'Isle's accurate mapping of the Asian northeast alongside Buache's fabricated Northwest Passage. This unusual Spanish edition of the map was issued to illustrate an unambiguous argument by the editor attacking the credibility of the map and the reports upon which it was founded. (more details)