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“THE FOUNDATION OF A LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIANA”—COWAN
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(CALIFORNIA.) Venegas, Miguel.
Noticia de la California, y de su conquista
temporal, y espiritual hasta eltiempo presente.
4 maps. [24], 240; [8], 564; [8], 436
pages. 3 volumes. 4to, modern vellum; tasteful repairs to maps and three other leaves, inter-
mittent foxing; small inked “MM” stamp on verso of first title page.
Madrid: Fernández, 1757
[6,000/9,000]
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA
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Edited by the Jesuit Andrés
Marcos Burriel from a 1739 manuscript, possibly to counter aspersions against the Jesuit
administration of California made by Anson in 1748. He drew heavily upon manuscript
sources. Cowan 1933, page 659; Howes V69 (“c”); Medina, BHA 3855; Palau 358387;
Sabin 98848; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 132 (“written in a very lucid style . . . in a secular
spirit, much different from the point of view usually taken by writers of other religious orders”);
Zamorano Eighty 78.