[Rarebooks] FS: Cowan's copy of "El Viagero Universal" (Vol. 26, on California & New Spain). Madrid: 1799

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CALIFORNIA) [Estala, Pedro]. EL VIAGERO UNIVERSAL, o Noticia del Mundo Antiguo y Nuevo... por D.P.E.P. Tomo XXVI [California and Nueva Espana]. Madrid: Imprenta de Villalpando. 1799. Sm. 8vo. 384pp. This copy extra-illustrated with 5 nicely hand colored plates. Orig. mottled calf. Bookplate of Robert E. Cowan.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Cowan, p. 467 (who did not know the name of the author), "It is one of the most complete descriptions of the period, relating almost entirely to Alta California. Some copies have five colored plates of the inhabitants of California." "EL VIAGERO UNIVERSAL" is a 43 volume world travel set.

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