Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el ano de 1792, para reconocer el
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
California --Maps, Monterey (Calif.) --Maps, Monterey Bay (Calif.) --Maps, and Spain --Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Alcala-Galiano, Dionisio, 1760-1805, Mexicana (Ship), Navarrete, Martin Fernandez de, 1765-1844, Sutil (Ship), and Valdes Flores Bazan y Peon, Cayetano, 1767-1835
Each piece signed with a small woodcut, the signature (likewise cut in wood) "Fonseca epus archieps", and a wax seal covered with paper., Imperfect: wormed, with damage to woodcuts and seals., and The recipient’s name "Luis Gimenes [?]" is written in the blank space provided for it.
Publisher:
Ano del nascimiento del Senor de mill y qnientos y qnze anos
The first section, a copy of Alonso de Leon's narrative, carries the account to 1649, the second, in the same hand, continues the narrative to 1689, and, the third, is an account by Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, "Viajo...de Don Alonso de Leon...desde la provincia de Coahuila a la Bahia de Espiritu Santo y provincia de Tejas en 26 de Marzo de 1690."
Subject (Geographic):
Texas--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
León, Alonso de,--ca. 1610-1661 and Sánchez de Zamora, Fernando,--fl. 1659-1689
Mexican citizen and Texas gazette (San Felipe, Tex.)
Description:
Continued by: Texas gazette and Brazoria commercial advertiser., Imperfect: many issues mutilated with loss of text., Sometimes published as: Mexican citizen with its own volume and number, Mar. 17-May 26, 1831., and Vol. 1, no. 7, 1829 is photocopy.
Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el ano de 1792, para reconocer el
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia --Description and travel, Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Northwest Coast of North America, Northwest Passage, Spain --Exploring expeditions, and Vancouver Island (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Alcala-Galiano, Dionisio, 1760-1805, Mexicana (Ship), Navarrete, Martin Fernandez de, 1765-1844, Sutil (Ship), and Valdes Flores Bazan y Peon, Cayetano, 1767-1835
Compiled by Johannes Baptista F----- probably a Genoese connected with the Franciscan Order., Front pastedown: [This page and the recto of the facing front flyleaf are covered with small ink drawings of alchemical apparatus, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, similar equipment, as well as a ""Bain-Marie"" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled. Verso of the front flyleaf is blank.], and Paper codex in Latin, Italian, and Spanish
Description:
In case with original, badly wormed, binding and endpapers. and Written throughout by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-sixteenth-century italic.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Drawing--16th century, Italian poetry--16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century