A Natural and Civil History of California

by Miguel Venegas

$10,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Rivington and Fletcher, 1759. First Edition. 2 vol. First in English of the foundational book on California, preceded only by the 1757 edition in Spanish from which it was translated. The natural history in this book is interesting, but it is the civil political history herein that is both valued and timeless because it is from the only first hand sources. Contemporary calf, a single penny sized worn spot to

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