[ First Account of California ] Memoire Touchant l'etat des Missions Nouvellement etablies dans la Californie. [in:] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions Etrangeres. Nouvelle Edition. Memoires d'Amerique. Tome Huitieme [with map:] Passage par Terre a la Californie Recouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqu'a 1701

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Kino / Piccolo / 1781 / [ First Account of California ] Memoire Touchant l'etat des Missions Nouvellement etablies dans la Californie. [in:] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions Etrangeres. Nouvelle Edition. Memoires d'Amerique. Tome Huitieme [with map:] Passage par Terre a la Californie Recouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqu'a 1701 (Safe 2, 110455) 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, leather spine label. Spine gilt with repeated fleuron device in four compartments. Remnant of 18th-century private library shelf label to lower spine. Marbled endpapers. Old ink splatter to title page. [3]-424 pages plus 5 folding engraved maps. Lacks half title. The Kino map clean and fresh. The other maps with moderate age-toning. Overall a nice example. Piccolo's Report on California With Kino's Map An important early account of California, including Kino's important map of peninsular California. Jesuit missionary Francisco Maria Piccolo's report on the discoveries and settlements in Baja California can be found on pages 52-77 of this third edition of volume 8 of the Lettres edifiantes. The original (separate) 1702 printing of Piccolo's account is excessively rare and was not issued with the map. Present here, as appropriate to the volume, is the third state of the Kino map. The Informe of Picolo has usually been considered the first printed account of California. the original [1702 edition] has always remained a very rare book. - Wagner. Picolo was born in Palermo, Sicily. After becoming a Jesuit, he was sent from Spain to Mexico around 1683. In November 1697 he traveled across the Sea of Cortez to Baja California and helped establish the first missions anywhere in the Californias. He made an expedition to the north, visited missions in Sonora in 1707-09 and continued working among the Native Americans in California until his death in 1729. [Piccolo's] Informe is an important historical work. It was first printed as a 16-page pamphlet in Mexico City in 1702. Some have claimed that this work was printed in Madrid in 1701 [cf. Cowan], and others that it first appeared in Guadalajara in 1702, but these claims are unfounded. Piccolo's Informe was reprinted in the various editions of the Jesuit letters, such as the Lettres edifiantes and the Cartas edificantes. - Hill Kino's Map and the End of the myth of Insular California This volume includes Father Eusebio Francisco Kino's seminal map, which definitively ended the myth of California as an Island, here present in the third state. Eusebio Francisco Kino S.J. (1645-1711) was a Roman Catholic priest who became famous for his exploration of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States (primarily northern Sonora and southern Arizona) and for his work to Christianize the indigenous Native American population, including primarily the Sobaipuri and other Upper Piman groups. He proved that California was not an island by leading an overland expedition there from Arizona. He established twenty-four missions and visitas ("country chapels") and was known for his ability to create relationships between indigenous peoples and the religious institutions he represented. Kino arrived in the Sonora y Sinaloa Province in 1687 to work with the Pima, where he established the first Catholic church in the Sonoran Desert. Kino traveled across Northern Mexico and to present-day California and Arizona. Roads were built to connect previously inaccessible areas. His many expeditions on horseback covered over 50,000 square miles, during which he mapped an area 200 miles long and 250 miles wide. Kino was important in the economic growth of Sonora at the time, teaching t.

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• Titre: [ First Account of California ] Memoire Touchant l'etat des Missions Nouvellement etablies dans la Californie. [in:] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions Etrangeres. Nouvelle Edition. Memoires d'Amerique. Tome Huitieme [with map:] Passage par Terre a la Californie Recouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqu'a 1701
• Éditeur: Kino / Piccolo
• Date de parution: 1781
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: VG+
• Type de livre: Book
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