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One of the earliest works on California
VÉNEGAS, Miguél & Andrés Marcos BURRIEL.Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays, de son sol, de ses montagnes, lacs, rivières & mers, de ses animaux, végétaux, minéraux, & de sa fameuse pêcherie des perles; les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un detail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir, & reconnoître son Golfe & la côte de la Mer du Sud.     Paris, Durand, 1767. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, with red and brown title labels, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. With an engraved folding map of California in vol. 1, and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (2), XXIV, 360; VIII, 375; VIII, 354, (2) pp. Original edition of the French translation of one of the earliest and most important works on early California. The original Spanish edition was written by Andrés Marcos Burriel (1719-1762), a Spanish Jesuit, after memoires by Miguél Vénegas (1680-1764), who was a Jesuit as well. The first edition appeared in Madrid, in 1739, and was translated into English, Dutch, German and French. This French translation, by Marc Antoine Eidous, was based on the English one, and makes no mention of the Spanish authors at all. Vénegas had never actually been to California, but relied on relations of several missionaries who had been there. His book, after being edited and compiled by Burriel, became the most extensive account on Lower California of the eighteenth century. It contains some rare facts and details on the work of the missionaries and on the customs of the Californian inhabitants. The work was also responsible for putting an end to the myth that California was an island, which was proven when in 1746 father Ferdinand Consag led an expedition to the mouth of the Colorado River, sailing completely around the Gulf of California. An account of this voyage can be found in the third volume, which can be regarded a supplement volume to the other two and is also edited by Burriel. This supplement contains next to the relation of Consag, extracts of other works on California and Northwest Coast explorations up to 1754. Good copy.
De Backer-Sommervogel VIII, cols 558-60; Sabin 98843; Chadenat 4155; JCB I, 1601; Eberstadt 128:156; Howes V69; Streeter coll. IV, 2433 & 2435 (other ed.); Howell, California 1649 (other ed.).
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