The expedition into California of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra and his companions in the year 1769
By: as told by Fray Francisco Palóu, and hitherto unpublished letters of Serra, Palóu and Galvéz: the whole newly translated and arranged as a consecutive narrative, with the aid of Thomas W. Temple II, by Douglas S. Watson; to which is added the account of Serra's death inscribed by Fray Francisco Palóu in the Book of the dead at Carmel mission.
Contributors: Gálvez, José de, 1720-1787.; Watson, Douglas S. ed. and tr.; Temple, Thomas Workman, 1905-1972, ed. and tr.
Publisher: Printed at the Nueva California press
Published: 1934
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Serra, Junípero, Father, 1713-1784.; Franciscans -- California.; Missions -- California.; Portolá's Expedition, Calif., 1769-1770.; California -- History -- To 1846.
Notes: "400 copies of this book ... were printed ... in the year of the 150th anniversary of the death of Padre Fray Junípero Serra." This copy not numbered.
Includes excerpts from Palou's books, "Noticias de la Nueva California" and "Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del venerable padre fray Junipero Serra."
Published also, without the facsimiles, in an edition of 1000 unnumbered copies under title: The founding of the first California missions under the spiritual guidance of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra.