Perez, Juan; Beals, Herbert K. [translator]. Juan Perez on the Northwest Coast: Six Documents of His Expedition in 1774 (North Pacific Studies); Translation and Annotation by Herbert K. Beals. Portland, Oregon: The Oregon Historical Society Press, 1989. First Edition. ISBN: 0875951899. [10195]
Fine blue cloth with fine dust jacket, dj in a Brodart wrapper. 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, xxvii., 270 clean pp. Erratum slip laid in. The dark blue streak in the photo is due to flash reflection - the dust jacket does not have a dark blue streak. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
"In early June 1774, a lone Spanish vessel, the 225-ton frigate Santiago, sailed from Monterey Bay on a mission of great importance and secrecy. Rumors of a Russian presence in Northwest America had helped spur Madrid five years earlier into launching a major effort to colonize Alta, or upper California. And now it was time to search the largely unknown coast stretching north as far as the sixteenth parallel for evidence of Russian settlements...Six documents of the controversial voyage are published here in English for the first time. These documents afford readers an opportunity to judge from themselves the scale of Pérez's achievements or shortcomings on the 1774 voyage. Whatever the conclusion, there is no denying that Pérez and his men accomplished the first European reconnaissance of the coast along present-day British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon." - publisher.
