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(CALIFORNIA.) Clavigero, Francisco Saverio.
Storia della California, opera
postuma.
Folding map. 276; 212, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, original boards, moderate
wear, worn later labels on backstrips; lacking errata leaf in Volume I, moderate foxing;
uncut; small inked “MM” stamps on verso of titles and page 52. In modern cloth slipcase.
Venice: Fenzo, 1789
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
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A history of Baja California, which also mentions Salvatierra and Kino’s
expedition and the mission at San Francisco. Cowan 1933, page 129; Howes C465 (“b”);
Palau 55491; Pilling 825; Sabin 13524; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 172.