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(CALIFORNIA.) Engel, Samuel.
Memoires et observations geographiques et
critiques sur . . . septentrionaux de l´Asie et de l´Amerique.
2 folding maps. xxii,
268 pages. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, moderate wear; short tears to maps, intermittent
toning.
Lausanne, 1765
[2,500/3,500]
A critical survey of the geography of the Arctic region. Pages 78 to 187 are devoted to
America’s Pacific coastline, with the author concluding that California is a peninsula, not an
island. Pages 188 to 265 contemplate the possibility of a northwest passage. Cowan 1933,
page 195; Howes E149 (“b”); Lada-Mocarski 18; Streeter sale VI:3460; TPL 384.