The Sea Diary of Fr. Juan Vizcaino to Alta California, 1769; Early California Travel Series XLIX
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson [Printed by Mallette Dean], 1959. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, [71] pp. Fine. Item #23101402
This the first time Fr. Vizcaino's diary was published; it was discovered by Woodward "among the hundreds of unknown manuscripts in Biblioteca Naconal de Mexico in Mexico City" in the summer of 1940.
Fr. Vizcaino was one of the few passengers on the ship "San Antonio" which was commissioned to bring food and supplies to the earliest explorers of Alta California. He reports on their first sighting of land (San Clemente, in the Channel Islands), details on the canoes used by the Native Americans they encountered, and many other aspects of the Native Americans who lived in the region.
Printed, illustrated and bound in paper boards by Mallette Dean, an eminent California artist and printer; the title page illustration being a linocut, the illustration on p. xviii a colour wood engraving, and the map (p. xxxii), illustration on p. xxxxii, and the patterned boards coloured linocuts.
___DESCRIPTION: Quarter gray cloth with patterned paper covered boards, paper spine label, map endpapers showing the journey of the San Antonio, illustrated title page, one map, and two in-text illustrations all in two colours (grey and red); duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-iv], v-xxxxii, 1-27, [1 blank] [colophon], limited edition of 225 copies, unnumbered.
___CONDITION: Fine; the binding clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, and as new.
___CITATION: Hawk no. 361.
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