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The first Spanish entry into San Francisco Bay, 1775 : the original narrative, hitherto unpublished, by Fr.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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santamaría, Vicente de, 1755-1813 (Author)
Other Authors: Galvin, John (Editor) (Editor), Choris, Louis, 1795-1828 (Illustrator), Kennedy, Lawton, 1900-1980 (Printer), Kennedy, Alfred (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:Text in English and Spanish.
Published: San Francisco : John Howell Books, 1971.
Subjects:
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
Indians of North America > California > San Francisco Bay Area.
Indians of North America.
California > San Francisco Bay Area.
Pacific Ocean > San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco, California (Bay) > Discovery and exploration > [literature] > 1971.
San Francisco, California (Bay) > History > [literature] > 1971.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue, from the journal of Father Miguel de la Campa, 1775
  • Journal of Father Vicente Santa Maria, 1775
  • The map that accompanied Father Santa María's journal
  • From the journal of Juan Manuel de Ayala, 1775
  • Letter of Captain Ayala to the Viceroy Bucareli, November 9, 1775
  • The report of José de Cañizares to Captain Ayala, 1775
  • The map that accompanied Cañizares' report
  • The engraving of 1781 after Cañizares' maps
  • From an account by Father Juan Crespí of the Fages Expedition of 1772
  • The map that accompanied Father Crespí's account
  • Glossary.