‘This work is generally held by all historians as apocryphal, and the name Coreal as the pseudonym for somebody who never undertook the voyages he describes … Coreal claims to have been born in Cartegena in 1648, and of having travelled out of a spirit of sheer adventure to the New World in 1666 and 1697, visiting the Antilles, Florida, Mexico, Central and South America … [The work] is merely a compilation from other travellers. He was evidently inspired by Pyrard, Froger, and others. But apocryphal or not, the book is interesting. The voyages of Coreal ended with the first volume.’ (Borba) The second volume is composes of narratives of Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain Narbrough and others. This example comes from the library of La Condamine, a celebrated traveller and mathametician, with his armorial stamp. Also bearing the stamp of the library of the Ambassador Hector de Ayala. Lacks a portion of the margin of page 217 in the second volume, not affecting the text. Borba de Moraes I, p. 180.