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Argonaut Press Northwest History

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Title: A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-West Coast of America being the narrative of the voyage made in the year 1792 by the schooners Sutil and Mexicana to explore the Strait of Fuca...
Author: [Espinosa y Tello, José.]
Description: xiv, 142 pp. Translated from the Spanish with an Introduction by Cecil Jane. Folding frontispiece; folding map; five plates. 10x7¼, half vellum with orange cloth, gilt cover design, spine gilt lettered. One of 525 copies on Japon Vellum. First Edition.An account of the final Spanish exploration of the west coast of North America, a vain search for a Northwest Passage from the west. Hill, p.99; Howes G18; Smith 2888 and 5181.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Argonaut Press
Date Published: 1930