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Title: Noticias de la Provincia de Californias en tres Cartas de Un Sacerdote Religioso. Hijo del Real Convento de Prediacadores de Valencia a un Amigo Suyo
Author: [Sales, Luis]
Description: Three volumes in one (as usual). 104; 96; 104 pp. 2 folding tables at rear supplied in photographic facsimile. (12mo) 5¾x3½, period vellum, free endpapers and front flyleaf replaced. Housed in a custom morocco backed box. First Edition."This important work was written by a priest of the Dominican order ... and copies are excessively scarce." (Cowan). Suppressed by a decree of the Spanish King, which in part accounts for its scarcity. Henry Wagner, in his bibliography of works on the Spanish Southwest, locates only 10 copies. The work is largely concerned with occurrences after the expulsion of the Jesuits from California, and contains accounts of the Alta California country, animals, Indians, etc. as well as accounts of the trials of the missionaries and includes important original documents. Among these are the invaluable Informe of Tobar y Tamariz describing the Nootka Expedition under Martinez, the capture of Colnett, and the tangled events that transpired there. The first and second letters were written from San Miguel mission, California, and the third from San Miguel, Azores Islands. Cowan, p. 550; Howes S52, Sabin 75765; Streeter Sale, IV, 2456; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 177.
Heading: Place Published: Valencia
Publisher: Los Hermanos de Orga
Date Published: 1794