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Journal of a voyage in 1775
Voyage of the Sonora in the second Bucareli expedition to explore the Northwest coast, survey the port of San Francisco, and found Franciscan missions and a presidio and pueblo at that port : the journal kept in 1775 on the Sonora / by Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle, the second pilot of the fleet constituting the sea division of the expedition ; translated by the Hon. Daines Barrington from the original Spanish manuscript ; reprinted line for line and page for page from Barrington's Miscellanies published in London in 1781, with concise notes showing the voyages of the earliest explorers on the coast, the sea and land expeditions of Galvez and of Bucareli for settling California and for founding missions, and many other interesting notes as well as an entirely new index to both text & notes by Thomas C. Russell ; together with a reproduction of the de la Bodega Spanish carta general showing Spanish discoveries, etc., on the coast up to 1791 and also a portrait of Sir Daines Barrington.
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Title:[Journal of a voyage in 1775]
Voyage of the Sonora in the second Bucareli expedition to explore the Northwest coast, survey the port of San Francisco, and found Franciscan missions and a presidio and pueblo at that port : the journal kept in 1775 on the Sonora / by Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle, the second pilot of the fleet constituting the sea division of the expedition ; translated by the Hon. Daines Barrington from the original Spanish manuscript ; reprinted line for line and page for page from Barrington's Miscellanies published in London in 1781, with concise notes showing the voyages of the earliest explorers on the coast, the sea and land expeditions of Galvez and of Bucareli for settling California and for founding missions, and many other interesting notes as well as an entirely new index to both text & notes by Thomas C. Russell ; together with a reproduction of the de la Bodega Spanish carta general showing Spanish discoveries, etc., on the coast up to 1791 and also a portrait of Sir Daines Barrington.
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Variant Title:Voyage of the Sonora in 1775
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Author/Creator:Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800, translator.
Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la, 1743-1794. Map & charts of Spanish exploration & discovery on the coast of the Californias and northward thereof to the year 1791.
Russell, Thomas C., printer, publisher.
Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
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Published/Created:San Francisco, California : Thomas C. Russell, 1920.
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS medium oversizeWhere is this?
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Call Number: F864 .M933
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Number of Items:2
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Status:Available
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS medium oversizeWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820--Diaries.
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820--Travel--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Bucareli y Ursúa, Antonio María, frey, 1717-1779--Travel--Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Sonora (Ship)
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration.
Pacific Coast (U.S.)--Description and travel.
Pacific States--Description and travel.
Spain--Discovery and exploration.
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Genre/Form:Diaries.
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Description:xii, 120 pages : portrait, 2 maps (1 folded) ; 29 cm
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Additional formats:Available also online.
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Local note:Holdings information may not be complete.
UBC Library has a copy in The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
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Notes:"One of an edition of two hundred and thirty copies, the impressions being taken upon type cast by the American type founder's company, and set by hand. The pages were distributed immediately after completion of presswork." This copy is Seventy three.
Colophon: Private press of Thomas C. Russell.
Folded map bound in at end of volume: Map & charts of Spanish exploration & discovery on the coast of the Californias and northward thereof to the year 1791 ... / by Don Juan Fco. de la Bodega y Cuadra ... ; with the survey of the port of San Francisco in 1775 by Don Juan Manuel Ayala in the San Carlos.
Copies are signed and numbered by the printer.