A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government, and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California, and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the South-Sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas ... in two volumes /
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Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford Theatre, in Pater-Noster-Row,
1759.
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| Item Description: | Map title: An accurate map of California, drawn by the Society of Jesuits & dedicated to the King of Spain. Appendix 2, Narrative of the voyage of Captain Sebastian Vizcaino in the year 1602 for surveying the outward or western coast of California on the South-sea. Appendix 3, Account of the voyage of Father Fernando Consag ... for surveying the eastern coast of California ... 1746. Translation of: Noticia de la California. "Largely written by Father Andrés Marcos Burriel."--Wheat, Mapping the Transmissippi West, p. 85. Engravings: frontispieces, plates. Each volume has separate table of contents. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 v. : ill., fold. map ; 21 cm. (8vo) |