Description
Commemorative facsimile edition of the V Centenary of the discovery of the South Sea (1513-2013), or Pacific Ocean, according to the originals kept in the General Archive of the Indies, in the Historical Library of the University of Seville and in the Herzog August Bibliothek.
Limited edition of 1,513 copies, numbered and notarized.
The edition consists of the reproduction of the following documents and map:
Portrait of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, with an epitome of his life, belonging to the edition “Portraits of Illustrious Spaniards”, Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1791. Copy kept in the Historical Library of the University of Seville.
The only surviving handwritten letter from Vasco Núñez de Balboa, sent in 1515 to King Ferdinand the Catholic, and kept in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
First Pacific Portolan, 68 x 90 cm, 16th century, kept in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
The facsimile of the handwritten letter presented in a 24 x 33 cm folder, and the facsimile of the portrait and biography in a 30 x 43 cm folder.
Study book bound in hard cover format 24 x 33 cm. 196 pages, with the participation of Christopher Columbus, XX Duke of Veragua and direct descendant of the Discoverer of the New World; Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo y Gayarre, Feliciano Correa Gamero, Carmen Mena García and José María Sanz Hermida.
In turn, all this presented in a beautiful blue box-case decorated in silver, magnetic closure, format 31.5 x 44 x 4.5 cm.
The portolan map of the Pacific Ocean is presented in a rigid and independent tube, format 75 x 7.3 cm.
“Well, one of the most important milestones in European overseas expansion took place on the Isthmus of Panama in the year 1513. Today, five centuries after that discovery, we celebrate the V Centenary of the discovery of the South Sea, remembering to Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the advanced Extremaduran, native of Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz) and his brave adventure companions. And they well deserve it. It is, without a doubt, one of the greatest feats of the time of geographical exploration carried out by a small group of Spanish adventurers and a leader of extraordinary charisma who helped to broaden the image of the world and opened new paths over the oceanic abysses that, since ancient times, separated peoples and cultures. It is true that the protagonists of that adventure, too ignorant of the planetary immensity, were not able to even imagine the scope, the true dimensions of the discovery. Rather, they viewed it as the possibility of an imagined future, the waterway that would take them straight to the Spice Shop, the Columbian dream come true.”
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