Relation d'un voyage à l'ile d’Amat ou Taïti, et aux iles voisines, exécuté en 1774 par ordre de Don Manuel de Amat y Junient Vice Roi du Pérou et du Chili par la frégate espagnole l'Aguila et le paquebot le Jupiter sous le commandement de Don Domingo de Bonechera, Capitaine de l’Aguila; Rédigé par Don José Andia y Varela Capitaine de Jupiter.
[Paris]: [appeared in: Recueil de voyages et de mémoires de la Société de Géographie de Paris, t. IV], [1839]. First edition. Text in Spanish. In later leather binding. IV [69]–130 [2] p. Light foxing throughout, light stains. Otherwise in fine condition.
First edition of this important source of the Peruvian expeditions to the South Pacific in the 18th century.
First edition, published in the Recueil de voyages et de mémoires de la Société de Géographie de Paris (t. IV, 1839 pp. 69–132). In the present publication the text is preceded by an abstract in French written by the secretary of the Central Commission Mr. d’Avezac, dated January 1835.
José de Andía y Varela (1730?–1774) was the captain of the Jupiter, “which was chartered on behalf of the Spanish government of Peru in order to accompany the Aguila to carry Franciscan missionaries to Tahiti. Varela left Callao on September 20, 1774, and was separated by the storm from the Aguila, which he did not meet again until Tahiti… Varela’s journal is our best source of information for the second, most important voyage of the Aguila to Tahiti”. (O’Reilly).
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