xiii, 260 pp. Lithograph portrait of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and large folding tinted lithograph map by Nordenskiöld. (Small 4to) 24.6x16.5 cm (9¾x6½"), original printed wrappers. Spain was determined to establish settlements in California ere the Russians gained a permanent foothold. The resulting Portola expedition and the journal kept by Miguel Costanso was suppressed by Spain so as not to give other navigators and other nations knowledge of Spain's plans. See Eberstadt: The Northwest Coast #48 of a later work. Not in Hill, Cox, Strathern, or Cowan. Howes N215(aa).
xiii, 260 pp. Lithograph portrait of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and large folding tinted lithograph map by Nordenskiöld. (Small 4to) 24.6x16.5 cm (9¾x6½"), original printed wrappers. Spain was determined to establish settlements in California ere the Russians gained a permanent foothold. The resulting Portola expedition and the journal kept by Miguel Costanso was suppressed by Spain so as not to give other navigators and other nations knowledge of Spain's plans. See Eberstadt: The Northwest Coast #48 of a later work. Not in Hill, Cox, Strathern, or Cowan. Howes N215(aa).
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