Open Collections

BC Historical Books

BC Historical Books
Featured Collection

BC Historical Books

Journal of a voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California, by the second pilot of the fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820

Description

"Reprinted from Daines Barrington's Miscellanies (no.27). 'A reprint edition of the Journal was also published, evidently after the forms of the Miscellanies were worked off and before they were taken off the press, the folios being changed, as well as the signatures on the press': - Russell, in his 1920 edition, p.ix.

Navarrete has a bio-bibliographical note." -- 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. 211.

Item Metadata

Title
Journal of a voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California, by the second pilot of the fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega
Creator
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820
Contributor
Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800
Publisher
[London] : [publisher not identified]
Date Issued
[1780?]
Description
"Reprinted from Daines Barrington's Miscellanies (no.27). 'A reprint edition of the Journal was also published, evidently after the forms of the Miscellanies were worked off and before they were taken off the press, the folios being changed, as well as the signatures on the press': - Russell, in his 1920 edition, p.ix.

Navarrete has a bio-bibliographical note." -- 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. 211.
Extent
471-477, 471-552 : map, tables ; 27 cm
Subject
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820; Bucareli y Ursúa, Antonio María, frey, 1717-1779; Sonora (Ship); Pacific Coast (U.S.)--Description and travel; Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel; Spain--Exploring expeditions
Genre
Books; Travel literature
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Notes
Pages 541-546 missing in print.

Other Copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496850808
Identifier
F864 .M933 1781 ; II-0385
Source
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F864 .M933 1781
Date Available
2016-02-23
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy, or otherwise distribute these images please contact digital.initiatives@ubc.ca.
Catalogue Record
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=463671
DOI
10.14288/1.0226110
Aggregated Source Repository
CONTENTdm

Item Media

Item Citations and Data

Rights

Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy, or otherwise distribute these images please contact digital.initiatives@ubc.ca.