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Hardcover. 4to., (11 x 7 4/8 inches). Title-page and text printed in red and black. Folding facsimile of Costanso's map of California, woodcut portraits of de Galvez and Serra by Zena Kavin. Original linen backed patterned paper boards, printed paper label on the spine, uncut. Provenance: with the bookplate of James S. Copley on the front paste-down, his sale, Sotheby's New York "Magnificent American, Historical Documents", 10th May 2011, lot 1059. First edition thus, limited issue, one of 550 copies printed. Translated from the original documents by Watson, Thomas Workman Temple II, and Frederick J. Teggart, and including the "diario" of Miguel Costanso, who kept a record of the journey to Monterey and its occupation in June of 1770. Together these three documents "tell of Spain's final attempt to spread her culture and dominion in the Western Hemisphere; a culmination of centuries of effort rather than an isolated historical event. they form a capstone of priceless worth to an historic pyramid built up of adventure and romance, victory and defeat, exploration and travel, and the strife and warfare of nations and religions through the ages" (Introduction).

hardcover. Junta or Council held at San Blas, May 16, 1768. Diario of the Expeditions made to California. folding map. 2 woodcuts. 63pp. 4to, cloth-backed bods., d.w. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Translations of three colonial documents. The first two, by Joseph De Galvez, establish the government of California and the occupation of Monterey. The third, by Miguel Constanso, is a diary of the expedition to reinforce Spanish claims to Northern California. One of 550 copies.