Johann Jakob Baegert (1717-1772) Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien. Mannheim
Johann Jakob Baegert (1717-1772)
Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien.
Mannheim: Gedruckt in der Churchfuerstl. Hof=und Academie Buchdruckeren, 1773.
First edition, second issue (following the 1772 edition); octavo, illustrated with folding engraved plates in two parts, depicting Californians male and female, (these plates are sometimes detached from one another, bound in separately, and described as two plates), with the folding engraved map of the lower Californian peninsula; contents nicely preserved in contemporary pink paper over boards (both boards detached); 6 3/4 x 4 in.
Baegert was a German Jesuit missionary who served in Baja California between 1751 and 1768, at which point the order was expelled from the region. He provides important ethnographic information on indigenous populations,the Pericues, Guiacuras, and Cochiemes, and also includes a chapter on the Waicuri language. The map, contributed by fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak, is also useful for understanding Baja California in this period. The Streeter catalogue notes that it is "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits."
Nonetheless, Baegert was not a great fan of the region. According to his accounts, the country was "absolutely unfitted for habitation; it was inhabited by wild and ferocious beasts; peopled by inhospitable and cruel savages; water was unfit for use; wood was scarce; and the soil would not sustain life." (Quoted from Robert Ernest Cowan's A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930, San Francisco, 1933.)
Cowan 1933, page 27. Howes B29 ("aa"); Streeter sale IV:2442; Streeter, Spanish Southwest 157n; Sabin 4363.
Condition
Condition: *8, A-Y8, Z3.Please contact the Specialist for the auction to request a condition report.Condition reports and additional images are provided as a courtesy and should be used by you to aid in the formation of your own opinion regarding condition. All material is sold subject to Swann's standard Terms and Conditions of Sale as published in our catalogues and posted on our website, and include the following terms: (1) all property is sold "as-is"; and (2) works cannot be returned on the basis of condition.
Johann Jakob Baegert (1717-1772)
Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien.
Mannheim: Gedruckt in der Churchfuerstl. Hof=und Academie Buchdruckeren, 1773.
First edition, second issue (following the 1772 edition); octavo, illustrated with folding engraved plates in two parts, depicting Californians male and female, (these plates are sometimes detached from one another, bound in separately, and described as two plates), with the folding engraved map of the lower Californian peninsula; contents nicely preserved in contemporary pink paper over boards (both boards detached); 6 3/4 x 4 in.
Baegert was a German Jesuit missionary who served in Baja California between 1751 and 1768, at which point the order was expelled from the region. He provides important ethnographic information on indigenous populations,the Pericues, Guiacuras, and Cochiemes, and also includes a chapter on the Waicuri language. The map, contributed by fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak, is also useful for understanding Baja California in this period. The Streeter catalogue notes that it is "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits."
Nonetheless, Baegert was not a great fan of the region. According to his accounts, the country was "absolutely unfitted for habitation; it was inhabited by wild and ferocious beasts; peopled by inhospitable and cruel savages; water was unfit for use; wood was scarce; and the soil would not sustain life." (Quoted from Robert Ernest Cowan's A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930, San Francisco, 1933.)
Cowan 1933, page 27. Howes B29 ("aa"); Streeter sale IV:2442; Streeter, Spanish Southwest 157n; Sabin 4363.
Condition
Condition: *8, A-Y8, Z3.Please contact the Specialist for the auction to request a condition report.Condition reports and additional images are provided as a courtesy and should be used by you to aid in the formation of your own opinion regarding condition. All material is sold subject to Swann's standard Terms and Conditions of Sale as published in our catalogues and posted on our website, and include the following terms: (1) all property is sold "as-is"; and (2) works cannot be returned on the basis of condition.
