(CALIFORNIA) Duhaut Cilly Auguste Bernard Voyage autour du M

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FIRST FOREIGN ACCOUNT OF SPANISH CALIFORNIA (CALIFORNIA.) Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard. Voyage autour du Monde, principalement a la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich. 4 plates, folding table. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, the first volume rebacked in cloth, the second in need of rebacking; intermittent foxing, some plate captions cropped; inked library release stamps on penultimate pages, no other library markings. With half-titles. Paris, 1834-35

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first and best edition. "The first foreign account of Spanish California, by a literate and observant French trader who visited most of the missions, presidios, and pueblos of Upper California and wrote the best contemporary account of the region"--Streeter sale IV:2472. The lithographs were done after Duhaut-Cilly's sketches; most depict California, including one of the iconic Mission San Luis Rey (illustrated) near San Diego.
Duhaut-Cilly's passages on Hawaii are less extensive but also important. He also discusses Chile, the Galápagos, Macao, and Java. Cowan 1933 page 186; Forbes 882; Hill 499; Howes D547 ("b"); Sabin 21164; Zamorano Eighty 31.