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Lettres Édifantes et Curieuses, Ecrites des Missions Etrangeres, par quelque Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus [Piccolo, Francisco Maria]
Nicolas le Clerc 1724 Kino
Vol. V only. [32], 287, [5] pp. With folding hand-coloured copper-engraved map. (12mo) 6½x3¾, period calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. Second Edition. Some rubbing and extremity wear to covers; some soiling to title-page, which is on a stub, map with 2" repaired tear from stub, else very good. The important fifth volume in the celebrated 34-volume collection of Jesuit "Relations", a tremendous collection of Jesuit missionary letters, first published between 1702 and 1776. This volume, first published in 1705, concerns America and contains what is considered the first printed account of California, Father Piccolo's "Memoire touchant l'estat des Missions, nouvellement establies dans la Californie," comprising pp. [248]-287. It is illustrated by Kino's landmark map of the Southwest, the first appearance of which was in the 1705 first edition of Volume V. Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, was one of the early Spanish explorers of the deserts of the American Southwest. The map, "Passage par Terre a la Californie Decouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-François Kino Jesuite depuis 1698 jusq'a 1701 ou l'on voit encore les Nouvelles Missions des PP. de la Compage. de Jesus," centered in the Gulf of California with Baja California on the left and Mexico on the right, based on Kino's explorations of 1698 and 1701. The map effectively disproved the "California as an island" myth that originated in the early years of the 17th century. "California is undoubtedly an island. Why, I have had in my office mariners who have sailed round it" -Herman Moll, 1711. One of the greatest myths in history claimed California is an island floating off the western coast of North America. This misconception originated with Father Antonio Ascension who drew a map of California based upon the Spanish navigators Juan De La Fuca (1592) and Martin d'Aguilar (1602). This map is remarkably accurate and remained the best map of much of the area until the twentieth century. Cowan p.390; Howes L299; Sabin 40697; Streeter Sale 2424; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 483; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 74a; Wheat, Transmississippi, 89.
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Lossing, Benson J.
New York W.A. Townsend & Company 1859
376 pp. Illustrated with engravings, including three plates at the beginning. 8½x6, full morocco elaborately gilt with spine in compartments, decorative panels on both covers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. First Edition. In deluxe binding. Minor scuffing to binding with a few nicks and corners bumped; pale foxing to first two plates, a little toning; overall quite handsome, near fine.
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Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico, in 1881 Bandelier, Adolf Francis Alphonse
Boston Cupples, Upham & Co. 1884
x, 326 pp. With 26 plates from photographs, drawings and a map. 9½x6¼, original printed thin boards, First Edition. Important archaeological investigations by the the noted ethnologist. After 1880 Bandelier devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological work among the Indians of the South-Western United States, Mexico and South America. Beginning his studies in Sonora (Mexico), Arizona and New Mexico, he made himself the leading authority on the history of this region, and with F. H. Cushing and his successors one of the leading authorities on its prehistoric civilization. Issued as Papers of the Archaelogical Institute of America, American Series, II. Foxing to lower margin of front board, nicks along joints; else very good to near fine, internally fresh and largely unopened.
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