Add this copy of Fray Juan Crespi Missionary Explorer on the Pacific to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1927 by University of California Press.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 1927. Lxiv, 402 pgs. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have some light bits of shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Joan Crespí or Juan Crespí (March 1, 1721 – January 1, 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias. A native of Majorca, Crespí entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to New Spain in 1749, and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra. In 1767 he went to the Baja California Peninsula and was placed in charge of the Misión La Purísima Concepción de Cadegomó. In 1769, Crespí joined the expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá and Junípero Serra (see Timeline of the Portolá expedition). He traveled in the vanguard of the land expedition to San Diego, led by Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada, where a presidio and mission were established. Crespí then continued north with Portolá and Rivera to identify the port of Monterey. Because he was the only one of the Franciscans to make the entire journey by land, Crespí became the first official diarist for the missions. He was one of three diarists to document the first exploration by Europeans of interior areas of Alta California. After reaching Monterey in October 1769, Crespí continued with the expedition that explored as far north as present-day San Francisco, and became one of the first Europeans to see San Francisco Bay. All told, the expedition traveled in the future state of California through the present-day coastal counties of San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and San Francisco. EB.
Add this copy of Fray Juan Crespi, Missionary Explorer on the Pacific to cart. $230.00, very good condition, Sold by White Raven Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ypsilanti, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1927 by University of California Press.
