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La Paz: Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the first Spanish edition of this work, which was first published in German in 1772. Additional notes by W. Michael Mathes and Raul Antonio Cota. xxxvii, 262 pp, with map, illustrations, index, in original wrappers. Slight shelf wear; else fine. Text in Spanish. Serie Cronistas 3. Cowan (p 27, referring to the German edition): "Baegert, a Jesuit missionary, resided for 18 years in California. perhaps no man ever wrote an impersonal book with more bitterness of heart. 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."

xliii+262+[4 ad] pages with fold-out frontispiece map, and 3 illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original wrappers. Introduction by Paul Kirckhoff. Translated from the German by Pedro R Hendrichs. One of 750 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 770 copies. Copy 419. First Spanish edition after the German edition of 1772.

Jean Jacques Baegert was born in Sélestat. A French city, located in the department of the Lower Rhine in the region of Alsace. He studied philosophy for two years and then joining the Jesuits in Aschaffenburg Bavaria Germany in 1736. He was professor of humanities at Mannheim in 1740, studied theology in Molsheim France and after his ordination to the priesthood on in 1749, was sent to Mexico as a missionary. In the Baja California peninsula exercised his apostolate, worked on the peninsula for 17 years until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He sailed from Loreto to start his journey back to Europe in 1768 and after a short stay in a Spanish monastery… Read More