Title: San Francisco Bay and California in 1776: Three Maps with Outline Sketches Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Manuscript Drawn by Pedro Font, Chaplain and Cartographer to the Expedition Led by Juan Bautista de Ansa... With an Explanation by Irving Berdine Richman Author: Font, Pedro Place: Providence, Rhode Island Publisher: The John Carter Brown Library Date: 1911 Description: [4], 7 pp. With three facsimile maps from the original manuscript drawn by Pedro Font, 1 of them folding; facsimile of letter from Font. 16x11¾, quarter cloth & boards. One of 125 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Font was chaplain and cartographer to the de Ansa overland journey from northern Mexico to the California coast during the winter of 1775-1776. The maps he drew are exceedingly important in the history of the cartography of the Southwest and California, being the first based on actual observations for much of the region. Cowan p. 216. Lot Amendments Condition: Top corner of front cover slightly bumped; rubberstamp of John H. Cook to front pastedown, else near fine to fine. Item number: 183734
Title: San Francisco Bay and California in 1776: Three Maps with Outline Sketches Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Manuscript Drawn by Pedro Font, Chaplain and Cartographer to the Expedition Led by Juan Bautista de Ansa... With an Explanation by Irving Berdine Richman Author: Font, Pedro Place: Providence, Rhode Island Publisher: The John Carter Brown Library Date: 1911 Description: [4], 7 pp. With three facsimile maps from the original manuscript drawn by Pedro Font, 1 of them folding; facsimile of letter from Font. 16x11¾, quarter cloth & boards. One of 125 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Font was chaplain and cartographer to the de Ansa overland journey from northern Mexico to the California coast during the winter of 1775-1776. The maps he drew are exceedingly important in the history of the cartography of the Southwest and California, being the first based on actual observations for much of the region. Cowan p. 216. Lot Amendments Condition: Top corner of front cover slightly bumped; rubberstamp of John H. Cook to front pastedown, else near fine to fine. Item number: 183734
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