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Février 1702, parle P. François Marie Picolo de la Comp. de Jesus.” (Pp. 248—
287). This letter is illustrated by the above-mentioned map showing a new over-
land route to California found in 1701 by the Jesuit Father Kino. According to
the préfacé by Charles Le Gobien, S.J., pointing out the importance of this
discovery, the map has been drawn by F. Kino himself, and is published in this
work very probably for the first time. Wagner, H. R. Cartography of the North-
west Coast, no. 483: „First appeared in all probabilty in Lettres Edifiantes,
but possibly in the Mémoires de Trévoux, in the same year, in the issue for May.
The map appeared in the subséquent éditions of the Lettres and has been repro-
duced a great number of times. It was engraved in Paris from a MS one sent
to Paris from Madrid by Father Alcazar. For reasons given in my ’Some imagi-
nary California geography’, where the subject of Kino’s map is discussed at
great length, it appears that some changes were made in the latitude when the
map was engraved, although Burriel in the Noticia of 1757 says that they were
made in Mexico.” Further Wagner writes in vol. I, p. 146/47 : ,,Kino was an
Italian who had been educated in Ingolstadt. He came to Mexico in 1681 with
a réputation as a methematician and astronome!*. He had been taught to believe
that California was a peninsula, but when he reached Mexico he discovered that
the current opinion there was that it was an island and to this view he became
converted. . . Gradually, however, the peninsular theory was abandoned and
toward the year 17001 most of the maps of the world or of North America show
California as an island .. . Nevertheless, after the publication of Kino’s map
of 1705 his idea was generally accepted by cartographers, and very few there-
after continued to delinhate California as an island.” According to Wagner there
are only photographs or photostats of this map in U.S.A. Phillips, List of Maps
in the Library of Congress, knows only a map in the édition of these letters
from 1762.
This is the vol. V. of the Lettres édifiantes, but entirely independent. Brunet
(III, 1028) commits an error saying that the first édition had been published
only in 1717—76. A very good copy, the map in perfect state of préservation,
(only a few brown stains). With ownership entry of a Carmélite Monastery
from 1706.
The other letters in this book are: Pierre Martin, au P. Le Gobien, sur son entrée
dans le Royaume de Maduré, par le Royaume de Travancor, et la coste de la
Pescherie. P. Fouquet, à M. Le Duc de la Force, sur divers établiss. des Jésuites
Franç. à la Chine. P. Tachard, au R. P. de la( Chaize, sur la Mission des Jes.
Franc, dans les Indes Orient.
See reproduction on page 25.
49. Calvin, Joa. Opuscula omnia in 1 vol. collecta. Quibus acc. libel-
lus nunc prim. edit. de aeterna Dei praedestinatione adv. Alb.
Pighium Campens, et Georg. Siculum. (Genev., J. Girard, 1552.) 12
Ivs., 946 pp., 1 If. Fol. Hf. calf. f 120.—
Haag III, 161. „Nicolas Des Gallars fit imprimer”. With a préfacé of N. Gal-
lasius. Cont. : Psychopannychia, Epistolae de fugiendis impior. illicitis sacris,
de officio in sacerdotiis. Sadoleti epistola ad Genevenses et Calvini responsio. De
coena domini. Epinicion Christi. Catechismus Genev. Instructio adv. Anabaptis-
tas, item adv. Libertinos al. Spirituales. De praedestinatione et providentia. —
And others. Titleleaf is little mended in the upper margin, at the end a few
unimportant stains but otherwise a very fine copy of this first édition.
50. (Calvin, J.) Catechismo cio e formulario per ammaestrare i
fancuilli ne la religione christiana fatto in modo di dialogo, dove il
ministro della chiesa domanda et il fanciullo risponde. (Genève) 1545.
44 Ivs. Hf. calf. f 200.
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland.
Cat. 193
Février 1702, parle P. François Marie Picolo de la Comp. de Jesus.” (Pp. 248—
287). This letter is illustrated by the above-mentioned map showing a new over-
land route to California found in 1701 by the Jesuit Father Kino. According to
the préfacé by Charles Le Gobien, S.J., pointing out the importance of this
discovery, the map has been drawn by F. Kino himself, and is published in this
work very probably for the first time. Wagner, H. R. Cartography of the North-
west Coast, no. 483: „First appeared in all probabilty in Lettres Edifiantes,
but possibly in the Mémoires de Trévoux, in the same year, in the issue for May.
The map appeared in the subséquent éditions of the Lettres and has been repro-
duced a great number of times. It was engraved in Paris from a MS one sent
to Paris from Madrid by Father Alcazar. For reasons given in my ’Some imagi-
nary California geography’, where the subject of Kino’s map is discussed at
great length, it appears that some changes were made in the latitude when the
map was engraved, although Burriel in the Noticia of 1757 says that they were
made in Mexico.” Further Wagner writes in vol. I, p. 146/47 : ,,Kino was an
Italian who had been educated in Ingolstadt. He came to Mexico in 1681 with
a réputation as a methematician and astronome!*. He had been taught to believe
that California was a peninsula, but when he reached Mexico he discovered that
the current opinion there was that it was an island and to this view he became
converted. . . Gradually, however, the peninsular theory was abandoned and
toward the year 17001 most of the maps of the world or of North America show
California as an island .. . Nevertheless, after the publication of Kino’s map
of 1705 his idea was generally accepted by cartographers, and very few there-
after continued to delinhate California as an island.” According to Wagner there
are only photographs or photostats of this map in U.S.A. Phillips, List of Maps
in the Library of Congress, knows only a map in the édition of these letters
from 1762.
This is the vol. V. of the Lettres édifiantes, but entirely independent. Brunet
(III, 1028) commits an error saying that the first édition had been published
only in 1717—76. A very good copy, the map in perfect state of préservation,
(only a few brown stains). With ownership entry of a Carmélite Monastery
from 1706.
The other letters in this book are: Pierre Martin, au P. Le Gobien, sur son entrée
dans le Royaume de Maduré, par le Royaume de Travancor, et la coste de la
Pescherie. P. Fouquet, à M. Le Duc de la Force, sur divers établiss. des Jésuites
Franç. à la Chine. P. Tachard, au R. P. de la( Chaize, sur la Mission des Jes.
Franc, dans les Indes Orient.
See reproduction on page 25.
49. Calvin, Joa. Opuscula omnia in 1 vol. collecta. Quibus acc. libel-
lus nunc prim. edit. de aeterna Dei praedestinatione adv. Alb.
Pighium Campens, et Georg. Siculum. (Genev., J. Girard, 1552.) 12
Ivs., 946 pp., 1 If. Fol. Hf. calf. f 120.—
Haag III, 161. „Nicolas Des Gallars fit imprimer”. With a préfacé of N. Gal-
lasius. Cont. : Psychopannychia, Epistolae de fugiendis impior. illicitis sacris,
de officio in sacerdotiis. Sadoleti epistola ad Genevenses et Calvini responsio. De
coena domini. Epinicion Christi. Catechismus Genev. Instructio adv. Anabaptis-
tas, item adv. Libertinos al. Spirituales. De praedestinatione et providentia. —
And others. Titleleaf is little mended in the upper margin, at the end a few
unimportant stains but otherwise a very fine copy of this first édition.
50. (Calvin, J.) Catechismo cio e formulario per ammaestrare i
fancuilli ne la religione christiana fatto in modo di dialogo, dove il
ministro della chiesa domanda et il fanciullo risponde. (Genève) 1545.
44 Ivs. Hf. calf. f 200.
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland.
Cat. 193
