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New Spain and The West books

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2020-077

Content Description

Four (4) books from the donor's parents' book collection from a Santa Barbara home.

Acquisition Type

Donation

Provenance

Gift of Jean Caldwell

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • Publication: 1967 - 1971

Extent

4 Volumes

Inventory

1) O'Crouley O'Donnell, Pedro Alonso, and Seán Galvin. 1972. A description of the Kingdom of New Spain: 1774. [San Francisco, Calif.]: Howell. 2) Garcés, Francisco. 1967. A record of travels in Arizona and California, 1775-1776. [San Francisco]: John Howell-Books. 3) Santamaría, Vicente de, John Galvin, Louis Choris, Lawton Kennedy, and Alfred Kennedy. 1971. The first Spanish entry into San Francisco Bay, 1775: the original narrative, hitherto unpublished, by Fr. Vicente María and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters, together with four contemporary maps and six illustrations in full colour from the brush and pencil of Louis Choris who was at San Francisco in 1816. 4) Abert, James W. 1970. Through the country of the Comanche Indians in the fall of the year 1845. San Francisco: Edited by John Galvin.