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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Colección de derrotas y Noticias de las corrientes y viento reynantes en las costas y mares a donde se dirigen...., 1798
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Spanish derrotero contains pen and ink drawings of ships and watercolor contours of the coastline.
mssHM 512
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This set of three manuscripts describes de Gálvez' expeditions to California, Sonora, Nueva Vizcaya, and Monterey, and his illness and return to Mexico City. HM 4054 is dated 1769, December 21 to 1770, March 31; HM 4055 is dated 1770, November 25. HM 4056 is dated circa 1770. In Spanish.
mssHM 4054-4056
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This manuscript diary by Juan Francisco de la Boedga y Caudra accounts his third voyage in the North West Pacific, from San Blas to Nootka in 1792. During this important voyage, Quadra was commissioned to define the boundaries of the British and Spanish territory on the Vancouver Island (B.C.). There is an extensive vocabulary of the Nootka dialect and a table of the ship's course found on two leaves that displays the meteorolocial conditions on the journeys.
mssHM 141
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Manuscript by Ferdinand Konsag, with additions by Juan de Armesto. Includes drawing of cacti, with descriptions; derrotero consisting of two maps, showing sections of the West and South Eastern coasts of lower California, in the handwriting of the author. In Spanish.
mssHM 1295
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These three documents describe the frigate Santa Gertrudis' voyage from the Port of Callao (Lima, Peru) to Acapulco, Mexico and back. The first document is a 1-page introduction to the following two, dated October 30, 1791, in Acapulco. The second document is a 4-page report by Alonso de Torres y Guerra, the commander of the Santa Gertrudis, to Antonio Valdes, a Spanish naval officer. It summarizes the journey's events, including the assistance provided to an English ship, descriptions of the Galapagos Islands, as well as commentary on Alejandro Malaspina's navigation charts and Juan Francisco de Bodega y Quadra's upcoming expedition to Nootka Island, Canada. And the third document is a 35-page derrotero, or route journal, written by José Manuel de Moraleda y Montero during the round trip from the Port of Callao to Acapulco, detailing landmarks, anchorages, climate, and other nautical and navigational information.
mssMontero