History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 16 The Malaspina Expedition, 1773-95

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 16 The Malaspina Expedition, 1773-95. 16. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-16-9.

Abstract: Volume 16 (HOM.16) contains all documents about the Malaspina Expedition that visited Guam in 1792. All in all, it contains 96 chapters, 205 documents, and 88 illustrations. The figure above is that of Commander Alexandro Malaspina. He was the leader of the first scientific expedition to the Pacific. His work and that of 12 of his officers appear in this volume. The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.