Perez. Juan Perez on the Northwest Coast: Six Documents of His Expedition in 1774

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