Description, que de la vaia de Santa Maria de Galve (antes Pansacola) de la Movila, y Rio de la Paliçada, en la costa septentrional del seno Mexicano

Creator

Metcalf, Louisa Dexter Sharpe Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de

Place

[Madrid?

Publisher

s.n

Date

1720?]

Notes

Includes an account of an expedition from Vera Cruz to Pensicola and the Mississippi River by Admiral Pez in 1693

Dated and signed on leaf 16 recto: A bordo de la fragata Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, surta en el puerto de San Juan Ulua, à 15. de Mayo de 1693, años. B. L. M. de V. Exc. su servidor, y capellan. Don Carlos de Siguença y Gongora

Signatures: A-H² (H2 verso blank)

According to Wagner, this work was not printed when it was written in 1693 but likely about 1719. Also copied into Pulgar's manuscript of the History of Florida where it appears as chapter 11, which was compiled about 1700. For a more detailed description of the work and its history please see Wagner

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Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Louisa Dexter Sharpe Metcalf

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern blue paper over boards and housed in red cloth covered slipcase which measures 32 cm. in height