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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 constiuting the sea division of the expedition, translated by the Hon. Daines 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

Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820

San Francisco : Thomas C. Russell

"Added t.p. is a copy of the original t.p.
230 copies printed by Russell on his private press.
'Notes ... more complete and dependable for the Californian coast than for the region to the northward': - unsigned review in the Washington Historical Quarterly, Vol.12, 1921, P.233."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 212.

Bucareli y Ursúa, Antonio María, frey, 1717-1779; Sonora (Ship); Northwest Coast of North America; Pacific States--Description and travel; Spain--Exploring expeditions

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English

F864 .M933 ; II-0385-i

Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F864 .M933

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

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