VENEGAS, MIGUEL. Noticia de la California y de su Conquista Temporal, y Espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez 1757. 3 vols., small 4to, 201 x 145mm. (7 7/8 x 5 3/4in.), contemporary limp vellum, later cord ties and leather attachments, new endpapers, upper cover of vol. 3 badly stained by mildew which has penetrated the first 12 leaves with a decreasingly heavy stain, folding map of the lands bordering the Pacific Ocean torn and repaired with old glue stains in vol. 2, P4 and Bb4 in vol. 1 with old tears and marginal patches catching an occasional letter, G4 in vol.3 torn and repaired with transparent tape, final leaf with slight marginal repair, occasional browning. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, edited from Venegas's manuscript completed in 1739 by Father Andrés Marcos Burriel and brought up to 1750, 4 folding engraved maps of California. Cowan (I), p. 238; (II), p. 659; Graff 4470; Howes V69; Medina 3855; Palau 358387 ("Obra importante y muy appreciacia en comercio"); Sabin 98848; Streeter sale 2433; Wagner Spanish Southwest 132; Zamorano Eighty 78.Maps:1. Mapa de la California. Sheet: 410 x 325mm. (16 1/4 x 12 3/4in.). Border of 11 pictorial vignettes. Dedication dated 1757 (Vol. I).2. Mapa de la America Septenl. Asia Oriental y Mar del Sur Intermedio Formada. Sheet: 315 x 370mm. (12 3/8 x 14 5/8in.). By Manuel Rodrigues "M.A.de 1756". Pictorial engraved caption panel. (Vol. II).3. Seno de California, y su costa oriental nuevamente descubierta...1747. Sheet: 320 x 300mm. (12 1/2 x 11 3/4in.) (Vol. III).4. Carta de la Mar del Sur, ò Mar pacifico entre el Equador, y 39 1/2 de latitud Septentrional hallada por el Almiral Jorge Anson. Sheet: 290 x 265mm. (11 3/4 x 10 1/2in.) (Vol. III).Provenance: Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905). (3)

VENEGAS, MIGUEL. Noticia de la California y de su Conquista Temporal, y Espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez 1757. 3 vols., small 4to, 201 x 145mm. (7 7/8 x 5 3/4in.), contemporary limp vellum, later cord ties and leather attachments, new endpapers, upper cover of vol. 3 badly stained by mildew which has penetrated the first 12 leaves with a decreasingly heavy stain, folding map of the lands bordering the Pacific Ocean torn and repaired with old glue stains in vol. 2, P4 and Bb4 in vol. 1 with old tears and marginal patches catching an occasional letter, G4 in vol.3 torn and repaired with transparent tape, final leaf with slight marginal repair, occasional browning. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, edited from Venegas's manuscript completed in 1739 by Father Andrés Marcos Burriel and brought up to 1750, 4 folding engraved maps of California. Cowan (I), p. 238; (II), p. 659; Graff 4470; Howes V69; Medina 3855; Palau 358387 ("Obra importante y muy appreciacia en comercio"); Sabin 98848; Streeter sale 2433; Wagner Spanish Southwest 132; Zamorano Eighty 78. Maps: 1. Mapa de la California. Sheet: 410 x 325mm. (16 1/4 x 12 3/4in.). Border of 11 pictorial vignettes. Dedication dated 1757 (Vol. I). 2. Mapa de la America Septenl. Asia Oriental y Mar del Sur Intermedio Formada. Sheet: 315 x 370mm. (12 3/8 x 14 5/8in.). By Manuel Rodrigues "M.A.de 1756". Pictorial engraved caption panel. (Vol. II). 3. Seno de California, y su costa oriental nuevamente descubierta...1747. Sheet: 320 x 300mm. (12 1/2 x 11 3/4in.) (Vol. III). 4. Carta de la Mar del Sur, ò Mar pacifico entre el Equador, y 39 1/2 de latitud Septentrional hallada por el Almiral Jorge Anson. Sheet: 290 x 265mm. (11 3/4 x 10 1/2in.) (Vol. III). Provenance: Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905). (3)

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VENEGAS, MIGUEL. Noticia de la California y de su Conquista Temporal, y Espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez 1757. 3 vols., small 4to, 201 x 145mm. (7 7/8 x 5 3/4in.), contemporary limp vellum, later cord ties and leather attachments, new endpapers, upper cover of vol. 3 badly stained by mildew which has penetrated the first 12 leaves with a decreasingly heavy stain, folding map of the lands bordering the Pacific Ocean torn and repaired with old glue stains in vol. 2, P4 and Bb4 in vol. 1 with old tears and marginal patches catching an occasional letter, G4 in vol.3 torn and repaired with transparent tape, final leaf with slight marginal repair, occasional browning. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, edited from Venegas's manuscript completed in 1739 by Father Andrés Marcos Burriel and brought up to 1750, 4 folding engraved maps of California. Cowan (I), p. 238; (II), p. 659; Graff 4470; Howes V69; Medina 3855; Palau 358387 ("Obra importante y muy appreciacia en comercio"); Sabin 98848; Streeter sale 2433; Wagner Spanish Southwest 132; Zamorano Eighty 78.

Maps:
1. Mapa de la California. Sheet: 410 x 325mm. (16 1/4 x 12 3/4in.).
Border of 11 pictorial vignettes. Dedication dated 1757 (Vol. I).
2. Mapa de la America Septenl. Asia Oriental y Mar del Sur Intermedio Formada. Sheet: 315 x 370mm. (12 3/8 x 14 5/8in.). By Manuel Rodrigues "M.A.de 1756". Pictorial engraved caption panel. (Vol. II).
3. Seno de California, y su costa oriental nuevamente descubierta...1747. Sheet: 320 x 300mm. (12 1/2 x 11 3/4in.) (Vol. III).
4. Carta de la Mar del Sur, ò Mar pacifico entre el Equador, y 39 1/2 de latitud Septentrional hallada por el Almiral Jorge Anson. Sheet: 290 x 265mm. (11 3/4 x 10 1/2in.) (Vol. III).

Provenance: Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905). (3)