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Mexico City: Reimpreso en Mexico por Luis Alvarez y Alvarez de la Caden, 1943-44. Reprint. Some rubbing to spines, neat mends to joints, overall very good. 3 volumes, quartos; 169; 348; 255 pp.; 6 folding maps (2 in second volume, 4 in third volume); half tree calf and brown boards, red and black morocco spine labels. (First 2 volumes with imprint as above; third volume with half-title page with imprint of Editorial Layac). A handsome reprint of an important work. Format is somewhat larger than the original and typeface is modern. As well as adding 2 more maps, this edition also has period-style chapter headpieces depicting scenes of Mission life. Generally regarded as the first published history of California, the first two volumes of "Noticia de la California" deal exclusively with Baja (lower) California and are based on the manuscript written by Mexican Jesuit scholar Miguel Venegas in 1739. Though he was himself unable to travel he compiled his history from a variety of sources, including…
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NOTICIA DE LA CALIFORNIA, y de su Conquesta Temporal, y Espiritual Hasta el Tiempo Presente.: Sacada de la Historia Manuscrita, Formada en Mexico año de 1739. por el Padre Miguel Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus; y de otras Noticias, y Relaciones antiguas, y modernas
by Venegas, Miguel [and Andres Marcos Burriel]
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Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1757. First edition. Fine. Hardcover. Three volumes. Small 4tos. (24),240; (8),564; (8),436. First issue with p. II, 479 misnumbered 476. Contemporary vellum, yap edges, manuscript titles on the spines. Four folding copperplate maps: Vol. 1 contains the Mapa de la California, y su Costa Oriental Nuevamente Descubierta, based on Padre Kino's revolutionary map. Vol. 3 contains three maps: Seno de California; Carta de la Mar del Sur; and Mapa de la America Septentl. etc. The first map has a professional, nearly invisible, repair of a closed separation across the upper third of the image, no loss. Map number 4 has a neat nearly invisible repair of a closed marginal tear, no loss. Scattered light foxing; small marginal paper flaw on II, 449/450, n ot affecting the text; stamps of the Museo of Teneriffe on the second leaf of II, the third leaf of III, and a paper repair on the second leaf of III suggesting there was once a stamp there. No text is affected, Remains of…
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