Lot 2039: DUFLOT DE MOFRAS, EUGENE. 1810-1884.

Mendoza et Navarrete. Notices biographiques. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1845. Folio (346 x 252 mm). 72 pp. Half-title. Later boards. Toning and some fingersoiling to margins, textblock cracked at pp 24-25. Provenance: Henry Harrisse (ownership signature to front pastedown; marginal note). FIRST EDITION, HISTORIAN OF SPANISH EXPLORATION HENRY HARRISSE'S COPY. Duflot de Mofras' study of Spanish explorers Pedro de Mendoza and Martin Fernandez de Navarrete. Harrisse [1823-1910] was the author of several works on Spanish exploration and the discovery of the Americas, including Jean et Sebastien Cabot (1882), Christophe Colombe (1884-85), and Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima (1866).