Carta reducida que comprende las costas septentrionales de la California....

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan, cartographer.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

California--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.

California.

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 map).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1783; approximately 1908]

Summary:

Tracing of 1783 manuscript made by Irving B. Richman in (?)1908. Shows Pacific coast of North America approximately between Cook Inlet (Alaska) and Monterey County (Calif.). Includes colored drawing of 'Bolcan de Miranda' (i.e. Iliamna Volcano, Alaska).

Notes:

AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 232

FULL TITLE: Carta reducida que comprende las costas septentrionales de la California : entre los grados 36 y 61 de latitud n[orte], descuviertos primeramente por el capitan de frag[a]ta D[on] Bruno Ezeta, el año de 1775 hasta los 50 g[rado]s, y ultimam[en]te por los thenientes de navio D[o]n Ygnacio Arteaga, y D[on] Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra comandantes de las fragatas de S[u] M[agestad] la Princesa y la Favorita, que estendieron dhos descuvrimientos hasta los 61 g[rado]s de latitud boreal, y 51 de longitud à el occidente de San Blas, que corresponden à 158º, 31 minutos à el occìdente del meridiano de Paria.

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

Original manuscript attributed to Juan Pantoja y Arriaga. Original in the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City. See their Catalogo de ilustraciones v. 7 (1979), p. 37 no. 3210. Cf. Wagner, H. R., Cartography of the northwest coast of America (1937), v. 2 p. 345 no. 669.

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