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Rare and highly decorative map of Baja California and Southern Arizona, by Padre Miguel Venegas, which appeared in his Noticia de la California, first published in Madrid in 1757.
As noted in Mapping of the Pacific Coast:
The Spanish authorities, much like the Russians, preferred as a matter of policy to keep records of their explorations, including most particularly maps, secret. Consequently, published Spanish maps from the Age of Exploration are quite rare. This map drawn by Miguel Venegas, a Jesuit missionary active for many years in New Spain, is based on the Father Kino's famous map of 1701, which was published first in Paris in 1705. However, unlike Kino, Venegas shows the full length of the peninsula and includes more place-names and more updated material.
Spanish missions are marked on the map with small churches, and this example contains a number of manuscript additions. Wagner noted that Venegas's landmark work "contains more on Lower California than almost any other book that has been published in one hundred and fifty years"
We offer both the map and a fine copy of Volume 1 of the text, bound in original vellum.
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