Paraca
Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Peru, Paracas. Contents Note: Latitude noted. Storehouses ['sellers'] depicted. Sailing directions. Note: 'from the sellers of Paraca is transported wines (wch is made in the valley of yea)'. Bound in 'A Wagoner of the South Sea describeing the sea coast from acapulco to Albemarle isle', an English translation of a Spanish derrotero captured from the Spanish ship 'Rosario' by Captain Bartholomew Sharpe in 1680. Hack made multiple copies of this atlas. This one was presented to James II.
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