A Spanish voyage to Vancouver and the north-west coast of America
Subtitle: being the narrative of the voyage made in the year 1792 by the schooners Sutil and Mexicana tp explore the Strait of Fuca.
By: Translated from the Spanish with an introduction by Cecil Jane; illustrated with a folding map and six illustrations.
Contributors: Jane, Lionel Cecil, 1879-1932.; Penzer, N. M. 1892-
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 178, no. 1853.
Publisher: The Argonaut Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Sutil (Ship); Mexicana (Ship); Nootka Indians.; Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.); Northwest Passage.; Northwest Coast of North America.; British Columbia -- Description and travel.; Vancouver Island (B.C.); Spain -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: "This edition ... is the tenth publication of the Argonaut Press and is limited to 525 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 525. The original woodcut appearing on the title-page is by William Monk, R.E. The volume has been printed by Morrison and Gibb, Ltd., Edinburgh, in the year 1930."

Preface signed: N.M. Penzer.

By some bibliographers the author is wrongly supposed to be Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, commander of the Sutil, and Cayetano Valdés, commander of the Mexicana. Navarreie (Bibl. mar. esp., t. 2, p. 65) states that Espinosa wrote the "Relacion" and that he himself wrote the introduction.

A translation of the original Spanish edition, Madrid, 1802.

References: Howes, U.S.IANA, no. G.18.

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, Reel 178, no. 1853)