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ISBN 10: 1019317310 ISBN 13: 9781019317310
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1019317310 ISBN 13: 9781019317310
Librería: California Books, Miami, FL, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1019317310 ISBN 13: 9781019317310
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1019328878 ISBN 13: 9781019328873
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Publicado por Legare Street Press 2022-10, 2022
ISBN 10: 1019328878 ISBN 13: 9781019328873
Librería: Chiron Media, Wallingford, Reino Unido
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1019317310 ISBN 13: 9781019317310
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Reino Unido
Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Publicado por Editorial Layac.Luis Alvarez and Alvarez de la Cadena, Mexico, 1943
Librería: Terra Firma Books, San Diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1757 original. 3-vol. set complete with all 6 maps as call for. Name stamp in front otherwise CLEAN!.
Publicado por Paris: Durand, 1767., 1767
Librería: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
3 volumes. 12mo., (6 4/8 x 3 6/8 inches). Half-titles. Fine folding engraved map of California (one or two short tears at folds, small repair on verso, some offsetting), woodcut and typographic initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary French green morocco backed marbled paper boards, the spines in 6 compartments with five raised bands, lettered in two, the others decorated with small gilt tools (discreet repairs to the joints and head and foot of each spine, corners scuffed). Provenance: 19th-century ink-stamp of P.A. Bergerot on preliminaries or half-titles, given to; the Ligue Nationale Francaise Bibliotheque, with library label recording the bequest and ink-stamp on half-titles and verso of folding map; bookplate of John Burkey on front paste-down. First edition in French. First published in Madrid in 1757: the earliest history of California. The work was widely disseminated during the decade following its publication through translations into English, French, Dutch and German. It remains one of the primary printed sources of the region's early colonial history. Attributed to Marc Antoine Eidous, the present "rather precise" French translation (Wagner) was made from the 1759 English version of the text. Venegas's name is nowhere mentioned, and the translation omits Appendices 6 and 7, De Lisle's Mémoire, and the account of the voyage of Admiral Fonte. The map of California reproduces the frontispiece map of the original edition, without the ten decorative border vignettes of the original. A variant issue of this edition is recorded, with the first title-page dated 1766. Howes V-69; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 132b; Hill 1769; Sabin 98843.
Publicado por Paris: Durand, 1767., 1767
Librería: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
3 volumes bound in 2. 12mo., (6 4/8 x 3 5/8 inches). Half-titles. Fine folding engraved map of California (short tear at mount), woodcut and typographic initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary French mottled calf, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, with red and citron morocco lettering-pieces in the second and third, the others decorated with small gilt pomegranate tools edges (a bit rubbed). First edition in French and A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. First published in Madrid in 1757: the earliest history of California. The work was widely disseminated during the decade following its publication through translations into English, French, Dutch and German. It remains one of the primary printed sources of the region's early colonial history. Attributed to Marc Antoine Eidous, the present "rather precise" French translation (Wagner) was made from the 1759 English version of the text. Venegas's name is nowhere mentioned, and the translation omits Appendices 6 and 7, De Lisle's Mémoire, and the account of the voyage of Admiral Fonte. The map of California reproduces the frontispiece map of the original edition, without the ten decorative border vignettes of the original. A variant issue of this edition is recorded, with the first title-page dated 1766. Howes V-69; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 132b; Hill 1769; Sabin 98843. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Publicado por Paris: Durand, 1767., 1767
Librería: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
3 volumes. 12mo., (6 2/8 x 3 6/8 inches). Half-titles. Fine folding engraved map of California, woodcut and typographic initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary French mottled calf, each cover decorated with a border of triple gilt fillets, the spines in six compartments with five raised bands, with red and citron morocco lettering-pieces in the second and third, the others decorated with small gilt spider web tools edges (a bit rubbed). First edition in French and A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. First published in Madrid in 1757: the earliest history of California. The work was widely disseminated during the decade following its publication through translations into English, French, Dutch and German. It remains one of the primary printed sources of the region's early colonial history. Attributed to Marc Antoine Eidous, the present "rather precise" French translation (Wagner) was made from the 1759 English version of the text. Venegas's name is nowhere mentioned, and the translation omits Appendices 6 and 7, De Lisle's Mémoire, and the account of the voyage of Admiral Fonte. The map of California reproduces the frontispiece map of the original edition, without the ten decorative border vignettes of the original. A variant issue of this edition is recorded, with the first title-page dated 1766. Howes V-69; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 132b; Hill 1769; Sabin 98843.
Publicado por James Rivington and James Fletcher, London, 1759
Librería: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, San diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Full Leather. Condición: Very Good. First British Edition. Two volumes. 3 engraved plates with map. Early 1900's leather in very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por London, Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford Theatre, in Pater-Noster-Row. 1759, 1759
Librería: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo, 20.3cm, The First Edition in English, in 2 volumes, [20],455 & [8],387pp., with 1 folding map & 4 engraved plates each with 2 illustrations, (most copies have only 2 plates; Cowan), bound in antique style modern full dark lightly specked brown calf, raised bands, blind decorations in the panels and decorated borders on the boards, dark crimson crushed morocco labels, contemporary armoral bookplate, slightly toned, an attractive set of an important work .(cgc) Cowan p237. Graff 4471. Howes V-70. Sabin 98845. Wagner. Spanish Southwest, 132a. Hill 1768. "This translation gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America. This work has been cited as the first book in English completely devoted to California." Miguel Venegas was a Jesuit historian who had served as a missionary in central Mexico. Although he never visited California himself he was assigned to write this geography, history and ethnography of the Baja area, which he based on correspondence and reports sent to him by his colleagues. The Jesuits had established missions in California in the early 18th century and had entered the Pericu region in 1720, but their efforts at bringing Christianity to the aboriginals were not well-received. I The 1734 Pericu Revolt against this intrusion saw two missionaries killed and Jesuit control over the area compromised. The Jesuits were eventually expelled by the Spanish crown in 1768. Venegas' account was subsequently edited by Andrs Marcos Burriel. It was published in Spanish in 1757 as "Noticia de la California" and translated into several languages. A previous owner, George Alan Lowndes, b. 1829, was the High Sheriff of Essex in 1861.