Baja California Travel Series

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1992. First Editions. 51 volume set Duodecimos [22 cm] all bound in full cloth with the titles and volume numbers gilt stamped on the backstrips. All volumes very good or better. Complete set. Numerous illustrations from facsimiles, photographs, drawings, engravings, maps, etc., several with tipped-in and/or folding plates, including those with folding maps in rear pockets, as issued. 8vo. Publisher's various color cloth (some decorative), spines lettered in gilt. Limited Editions, from 300 to 700 copies each. Important set of travel narratives that detail adventure on the peninsula of Baja California from the earliest (truncated) times to the present, providing a wealth of great source material. Complete sets are rare.

Volume 1: Journey of James H. Bull (1965)
Volume 2: Lower California Frontier (1965)
Volume 3: The Cattle Drives of Joseph E. Pleasants (1965)
Volume 4: The Pearl Hunters in the Gulf of California 1668 (1966)
Volume 5: Wenceslaus Linck's Diary of his 1766 Expedition. (1966)
Volume 6: The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854 (1966)
Volume 7: The Natural & Human History of Baja California (1966)
Volume 8: The Rush of '89 (1967)
Volume 9: Wenceslaus Linck's Reports & Letters, 1762-1778 (1967)
Volume 10: Informe on the New Province of California (1967)
Volume 11: The Missions & Missionaries of Baja California (1968)
Volume 12: The Autobiography of Dellfina Guero, a Diegueno Indian (1968)
Volume 13: Indian Art and History (1969)
Volume 14: The Filibusters of 1890 (1968)
Volume 15. The Apostolic Life of Fernando Consag (1968)
Volume 16: First from the Gulf to the Pacific (1969)
Volume 17: Diary of His Surveys of the Frontier, 1796 (1969)
Volume 18: The Capture of the Santa Ana (1969)
Volume 19: The Cora Indians of Baja California (1970)
Volume 20: Kaigai Ibun (1970)
Volume 21: Journal aboard the Bark Ocean Bird on a Whaling Voyage (1970)
Volume 22: Letter of Luis Jayme, O.F.M (1970)
Volume 23: The Baja California Travels of Charles Russell Orcutt (1971)
Volume 24: J. A. Sketches of a Journey on the Two Oceans (1971)
Volume 25: Juan Maria de Salvatierra S.J. (1971)
Volume 26: Historical Notes on Lower California (1972)
Volume 27: The Drawings of Ignacio Tirsch (1972)
Volume 28: The Adventures of Stickeen in Lower California, 1874 (1972)
Volume 29: Men & Whales at Scammon's Lagoon (1972)
Volume 30: Voyages of Francisco de Ortega (1973)
Volume 31: The Conquistador in California: 1535 (1973)
Volume 32: Baja California: Jewish Refuge and Homeland (1973)
Volume 33: Rock Art of Baja California (1974)
Volume 34: Travelers Among the Cucapa (1975)
Volume 35: Geographic and Hydrographic Descriptions of Many Northern and Southern Lands and Seas in the Indies, Specifically of the Discovery of the Kingdom of California (1974)
Volume 36: El Picacho del Diablo (1975)
Volume 37: Royal Officer in Baja California, 1768-1770 (1976)
Volume 38: Hardly Any Fences (1977)
Volume 39: The Mexican War in Baja California (1977)
Volume 40: Cattle Brands of Baja California Sur 1809-1885 (1978)
Volume 41: English Privateers at Cabo San Lucas (1979)
Volume 42: Clemente Guillen, Explorer of the South; Diaries of the Overland Expeditions to Bahia Magdalena and La Paz,1719-1721 (1979)
Volume 43: The Natural History of Baja California (1980)
Volume 44: Ethnology and Linguistics of Baja California (1981)
Volume 45: The Letters of Jacob Baegert, 1749-1761 (1982)
Volume 46: The 1769 Transit of Venus (1982)
Volume 47: Jesuit Relations (1984)
Volume 48: Xantus: The Letters of John Xantus to Spencer Fullerton Baird from San Francisco and Cabo San Lucas, 1859-1861 (1986)
Volume 49: Baja California Railways (1988)
Volume 50: Baja California Travels Series, General Index, Vols. 1-49 (1988)
Volume 51: Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California (1992). (Inventory #: 10329)