Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie
contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un détail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son golfe & la côte de la mer du sud. Enrichie de la carte du pays & des mers adjacentes
by Miguel Venegas
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Translation, by Marc Eidous, of: A natural and civil history of California , first printed London, 1759. The original Spanish edition was printed under title "Noticia de la California" in Madrid in 1757.
Largely written by Father Andrés Marcos Burriel. Cf. Wheat, Mapping the Transmissippi West, p. 85.
Pagination: v. 1: [2], xxii [i.e. xxiv], 360 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: viii, 375, [1] p.; v. 3: viii, 354, [2] p.
Signatures: v. 1: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a⁸ (a1 verso blank) b⁴ A-2G⁸⁻⁴ (M3 verso blank); v. 2: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-2G⁸⁻⁴ (P3 missigned P2) 2H⁸ (2H8 verso blank); v. 3: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-2E⁸⁻⁴ 2F⁸ 2G²
Errors in paging: v. 1, p. xxiv, 2nd count, misnumbered xxii.
Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
"Carte de la Californie, levée par la Société des Jesuites. Dédiée au roy d'Espagne en 1757", folded map, is bound in v. 1 to face p. [1], 3rd count.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 98843.
Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, III:855.
Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 3855n.
Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, VIII: col. 560.
Wagner, H.R. Cartography of the northwest coast of America to the year 1800, 132b.
Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III:1601.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.
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