Voyage au Golfe de Californie. Grands Courants de la Mer. Courants Généraux Atmosphériques. Usages de la vie Maritime. Tempêtes vers le Pôle Austra. Poissons et Oiseaux de la Mer. Description de la Sonora et de ses Richesses Minérales. de la Basse Californie, ses Volcans, ses Produits. Péche des Perles. La Chaine des Cordillères, ses Forêts. Nuits de la Zone Torride.
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1864]. xvi, 544 pp. Illus. with 1 folding lithographed map (hand-colored in outline). 8vo. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, six compartments, decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, sewn-in silk bookmark. First edition. Extremties worn but still a very good copy, tiny tear to map at inner margin. Sabin 14925. Barrett 555. Hill pp. 59-61. Palau 57920. Item #33786
"Combier [a French merchant] set out to write an account of the voyages he had undertaken during the course of his business ventures in the New World. ...[and] established himself primarily in Guaymas and Hermosillo and sailed between Mexican ports such as Guaymas, Acapulco, Mazatlan, and Veracruz. He also visited Valparaiso, Chile and the La Paz-Loreto environs in Baja California. His observations of the people and the terrain visited were carefully noted and included in the account," (Hill p.61). Map by M. V. A. Malte-Brun includes part of Baja, California, and the southwest with the Apache territories noted.
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