Cuevas, P. Mariano

Monje Y Marino, La Vida Y Los Tiempos de Fray Andres de Urdaneta

Mexico City: Editorial LAYAC, 1943.

First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 9.5 x 7.25 inches, xv, 417 pp, including index and bibliography, illustrations, folding maps and facsimiles, in original colorful printed wrappers. A few penciled check marks in the index, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Some pages unopened. Second volume in the series "Espanoles en America." Text in Spanish. Andrés de Urdaneta, (1948-1568) was a maritime explorer for the Spanish empire whose "discovery of a favourable west-to-east route across the Pacific made colonization of the Philippines and transpacific commerce possible" (Britannica).

Item #21212

Price: $250.00