Early charts of San Diego and San Blas

LA PEROUSE, Jean-Francois de Galaup de.

Plan du Port de St. Diego en Californie... Levé en 1782. Plan du Port et du Departement de St. Blas... Leve en Novembre 1777.
Paris, 1797. Two charts on one sheet, 500 x 340mm.

Two detailed charts of West Coast ports, San Diego and San Blas, a Spanish naval base in Baya California. Although they were published in the 'Atlas de Voyage de la Pérouse', the account of the voyages of Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, in the Pacific, 1785-88, the charts are based on surveys made by Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, a Spanish captain of the Manila trade.


Stock ID : 22412