Books and Manuscripts

(Baegert, Jacob)
Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien… 
Mannheim: Churfurstl, Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. Second issue. 12mo. (16), 358 pp. Illustrated with two engraved folding plates and one engraved folding map. Three-quarter tan morocco over contemporary paper-covered boards, rebacked and recornered, morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, extremities rubbed and worn; edges stained red; early annotations on title-page; small early repair in top fore-edge of pp. (1)/2. Howes B-29; Hill, p. 12; Cowan, p. 27; Sabin 4363; Bell B5; Streeter Sale 2442; Barrett 129; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 157; Meadows, Baja California 1; Graff 137; Pilling, Proof Sheets 203 

Rare and early account of Lower California by a German Jesuit. Second issue with some corrections, after the first printing the previous year. With important plates of the region, and a map described by Streeter as "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits." 

Rare. The National Union Catalogue locates only three copies of the second issue.