A Passage by Land to California—Kino—Insular California disproof—Baja 1721 map
£680
SKU: P-6-111784
'A Passage by Land to California Discover'd by the Rev. Father Eusebius Francis Kino Jesuite between ye years 1698 and 1701'
An important map in the history of the cartography of California, showing the result of Kino’s overland journeys and arguing against the long-lived European misconception that California was an island. The Gulf of California, Baja California, Sonora, Arizona and the missionary geography of northern New Spain are all treated with unusual confidence for the period. Missions, native groups, rivers and routes are identified, giving the map both geographical and ethnographic interest. Its importance is not in decorative embellishment but in its corrective power: it helped disseminate new Jesuit intelligence through the scientific network of the Royal Society. This example is accompanied by the approval/imprimatur leaf for the Philosophical Transactions abridgement, within which the map was originally published, bearing the printed imprimatur of Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, giving it an unusually resonant Enlightenment scientific association. For collectors, it offers a compact, early and highly desirable witness to the final erosion of the California-as-island myth. It remains one of the most meaningful small-format California maps.
Size 25 x 22 cm | 10.0 x 8.5 inches
Date Published: 1721
Type: Antique uncoloured copper-engraved map, accompanied by the Royal Society approval/Isaac Newton imprimatur leaf for the Philosophical Transactions abridgement within which it was originally published
Author: Kino, Eusebio Francisco
Publication: Philosophical Transactions
Condition: Good |
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