Lot 497
Picolo, Fr. Maria - California
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
£350
Description
Of a Passage by Land to California and a Description of the Country, by Fr. Maria Picolo, taken from the Letters of the Missionary Jesuits, pp.191-196 in The Philosophical Transactions (from the year 1700, to the year 1720) Abridg'd... London: J. and J. Knapton..., 1731. Second edition, volume 5 only, with folding map of California, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn
Footnote
Note: Father Eusebius Francis Kino's map, which was first published in French in 1705, famously discredited the cartographic tradition that California was its own separate island.