Research Catalog

Title

Clemente Guillén, explorer of the South : diaries of the overland expeditions to Bahía Magdalena and La Paz, 1719, 1720-1721 / translated and edited by W. Michael Mathes.

Author

Guillén, Clemente, 1677-1748.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Dawson's Book Shop, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rodríguez Lorenzo, Esteban, approximately 1670-1746.
• Mathes, W. Michael.
• Dahlstrom, Grant Edward.
• Castle Press. prt

Description

99 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Baja California travels series ; 42

Alternative Title

• Clemente Guillén diaries, 1719-1721
• Guillén diaries

Subjects

• Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula) > Early works to 1800
• La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico) > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800
• Magdalena Bay (Mexico) > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800
• Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800
• Jesuits Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula) > Early works to 1800
• Guillén, Clemente, 1677-1748 > Diaries

Note

• "500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena"--Colophon.
• Translation of Archivo Franciscano ms. I/2.1 and ms. 3/49.1 in the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico City. First published in Spanish in Documentos para la historía de la Baja California (1940) (1st item); Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnología, 4. época, t. 4, no. 3 (1926) (2nd item).
• Half title: The Guillén diaries.
• Authorship of 1st item also attributed to Esteban Rodríguez Lorenzo, commander of the expedition.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Binding (note)

• Binding: Publisher's blue cloth.

Contents

An expedition to the Guaycura Nation in the Californias and the discovery by land of the Great Bay of Santa María Magdalena on the Pacific Ocean -- Expedition by land from the Mission of San Juan Malibat to the Bay of La Paz on the Gulf of California -- Epilogue -- Map showing the routes of the 1719 and 1720 expeditions -- A Guillén bibliography ( p. 97-99).

Call Number

*KP (Castle) 07-528

ISBN

• 087093242X
• 9780870932427

LCCN

78073364

OCLC

5001550

Author

Guillén, Clemente, 1677-1748.

Title

Clemente Guillén, explorer of the South : diaries of the overland expeditions to Bahía Magdalena and La Paz, 1719, 1720-1721 / translated and edited by W. Michael Mathes.

Imprint

Los Angeles, Calif. : Dawson's Book Shop, 1979.

Series

Baja California travels series ; 42

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Binding

Binding: Publisher's blue cloth.

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Added Author

Rodríguez Lorenzo, Esteban, approximately 1670-1746. Attributed name

Mathes, W. Michael.

Dahlstrom, Grant Edward. Printer

Castle Press. Printer

Spine Title

Clemente Guillén diaries, 1719-1721

Research Call Number

*KP (Castle) 07-528