NODAL, Bartolom Garcia de (1574-1622) and Goncalo NODAL (1569-1622). Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias... Cadiz: Don Manul Espinosa de los Monteros, [1766]. -- [Bound with:] ECHEVELAR, Manuel de. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas, y navegaciones... en la America septentrional. Cadiz: Real Imprenta de Marina, [1753]. 2 works bound in one, small 4to (194 x 141 mm). Engraved folding map. (Some spotting, second half with worming in gutters.) Contemporary limp vellum (somewhat soiled or darkened, remnants of ties).Second edition, but the first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. "The original edition of the voyage for the discovery of the Magellan Straits, etc., performed by the two brothers Captains Nodal... is one of the rarest books of its class... The strait of San Vincente had been traversed by Le Maire shortly before the brothers Nodal, and his name has remained to designate it. But the Spanish map has a special value of its own, and is more detailed than Le Maire's" (see Sabin 55394). RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 3 copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 35 years. Palau 78299; Sabin 55395 and 55396.