with a note that he continued in his role with the pilots), pilotín (“pilot’s assistant”), segundo piloto (“second pilot”), primer piloto (“first pilot”), alférez de navío (“frigate lieutenant”, a junior watch officer), and teniente de fragata (“first lieutenant”, a full lieutenant). Parrado later became the principal teacher at the school of navigation in Cartagena. 4 pp. manuscript in neat, clearly legible hand on a single bifolium, elaborately engraved cartouche to the first page, incorporating a three-master atop and enclosing a tabulated manuscript summary of Parrado’s postings and positions. Light toning and minor staining. A very good example. ¶ Clowes, The Royal Navy , vol. 3. £1,875 [154781] 163 STEADMAN, Ralph. The Big I Am. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 First edition, inscribed on the half-title: “Ballsaxe from Ralph Steadman to Lyn Chartre, 27 October”, together with a full page drawing in ball point pen and light wash titled “Balzac. A homage to Pudding.” The work is a retelling of the story of Creation, with God’s comments on the birth of the Universe alongside Steadman’s visceral drawings. Quarto. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout by Steadman. Near-fine in dust jacket, one small closed tear to foot of spine. £500 [153780]
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de Espinola in Havana, taking part in the 1745 commissioning voyage of the S anta Teresa de Jesus , 64, better known as the Dragon . The manuscript details an engagement in that year with an unnamed British vessel of 60 guns “quese avisto diferentes vezes frente del Puerto” (“had been seen several times outside the port”). The Dragon’s main mast was split, and she was forced to quit the battle. The document also notes Parrado’s presence in Tortuga, Cabo de San Antonio, Puerto Rico, and Havana during 1746. Parrado seems to have occupied seven different positions during his career, showing a clear ascent through the ranks: marinero agregado a los pilotos (“sailor attached to the pilots”), arnillero (“gunsmith”,
off the coast of Venezuela. During the summer of 1736 Parrado was in the Conquistador , under Don Blas de Lezo, which was under repair in Spain before its embarkation for Cartagena early in 1737 with 1,891 tons of cargo and brigadier Don Jose Ambrosio, the new governor of Chile, aboard. The Conquistador remained at Cartagena on coast guard duties until she was scuttled by de Lezo during the battle of Cartagena in 1741 as part of the blockade of Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon’s massive invasion assault. British failure here was to prove one of the pivotal moments of the War of Jenkins’s Ear. Parrado is shown as having stayed in Cartagena until 1744, after which it seems he joined Don Benito Antonio
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