NOTICIA DE LA CALIFORNIA, Y DE SU CONQUISTA TEMPORAL, Y ESPIRITUAL HASTA EL TIEMPO PRESENTE

by Miguel Venegas

$12,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Madrid: En la Imprenta de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, MDCCLVIII 1757 . 20.2x14.7 cm ; 7 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches small quarto , three volumes: pp. 1-24 , 1-240; 1-8 , 1-564; 1-8 , 1-436, historiated initial letters, head and tailpieces, four engraved folded maps the first in volume one, the others in volume three , original full vellum, spine panels lettered by hand. First edition. First attempt at a history of California.

• Binding: Leather

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