First edition of this collection of miscellaneous pieces which includes a significant account of a Spanish voyage, Maurelle's "Journal of a Voyage in 1775, to explore the coast of America, northward of California". This is the only contemporary English version of the important Spanish voyage in the Santiago and the Sonora, sent out by the Viceroy of Mexico, to the Northwest coast of America. "The Spanish were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America and did not, of course, publish this journal… Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript…" (Lada-Mocarski). Barrington also drew up the map here from the latitudes and longitudes shown in the journal: it covers the Pacific coast from Cape de Corrientes in Mexico to Cape St Elias in Alaska.

First edition of this collection of miscellaneous pieces which includes a significant account of a Spanish voyage, Maurelle's "Journal of a Voyage in 1775, to explore the coast of America, northward of California". This is the only contemporary English version of the important Spanish voyage in the Santiago and the Sonora, sent out by the Viceroy of Mexico, to the Northwest coast of America. "The Spanish were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America and did not, of course, publish this journal… Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript…" (Lada-Mocarski). Barrington also drew up the map here from the latitudes and longitudes shown in the journal: it covers the Pacific coast from Cape de Corrientes in Mexico to Cape St Elias in Alaska.

Barrington also includes another important exploration piece, "Tracts on the Possibility of Approaching the North Pole", later reprinted as a separate edition.

Reese noted: "A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole discussed" and "Journal of a Voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California." This section, consisting of some ninety pages, was written by Don Francisco de la Bodega and is illustrated by a map of the Pacific Coast of America from Baja to Alaska, with capes named by Bodega marked. Wagner comments at length on the origins of this often inaccurate map. Much of the first article was drawn from information provided by whaling captains. There are several pieces on natural historical subjects, as well as "Ohthere's 'Voyage, and the Geography of the Ninth Century illustrated.'" In addition there is an account, illustrated with an engraved portrait, of "a very remarkable young musician" (Mozart). The Streeter copy sold in 1968 for $175 to the California collector Warren Heckrotte, and reappeared in his sale in 2015, where it sold for $1750".

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