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The expedition into California of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra and his companions in the year 1769 / as told by Fray Francisco Palóu, and hitherto unpublished letters of Serra, Palóu and Galvez: the whole newly translated and arranged as a consecutive narrative, with the aid of Thomas W. Temple II, by Douglas S. Watson; to which is added the account of Serra's death inscribed by Fray Francisco Palóu in the Book of the dead at Carmel Mission.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palóu, Francisco, 1723-1789.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Serra, Junípero, Saint, 1713-1784.
- Serra, Junípero.
- Missions--California.
- Missions.
- California.
- Franciscans--California.
- Franciscans.
- California--History--To 1846.
- History.
- Portolá's Expedition, Calif., 1769-1770.
- Physical Description:
- 2 preliminary leaves, iii, 124 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece (portrait) folded map, facsimiles ; 29cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934.
- Notes:
- Includes Excerpts from Palou's books "Noticias de la nueva California" and "Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del venerable padre fray Junípero Serra."
- Published also, without the facsimiles, in an edition of 1000 unnumbered copies under title: The founding of the first California missions under the spiritual guidance of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra.
- "400 copies of this book ... were printed ... in the year of the 150th anniversary of the death of Padre Fray Junípero Serra." Copy no. 205.
- OCLC:
- 7973549
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