Plano geografico de los descubrimientos hechos por Dn. Bernardo Miera y Pacheco y los RRs. Ps. Fr. Francisco Atanasio Dominguez y Fr. Silvestre Veles S. Felipe Rt. de Chiguagua. [cartographic material]

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Plano geografico de los descubrimientos hechos por Dn. Bernardo Miera y Pacheco y los RRs. Ps. Fr. Francisco Atanasio Dominguez y Fr. Silvestre Veles S. Felipe Rt. de Chiguagua. [cartographic material]

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Title: Plano geografico de los descubrimientos hechos por Dn. Bernardo Miera y Pacheco y los RRs. Ps. Fr. Francisco Atanasio Dominguez y Fr. Silvestre Veles S. Felipe Rt. de Chiguagua. [cartographic material]
Creator: Miera y Pacheco, Bernardo de, cartographer
Published / Created: Año de 1778.
Abstract: Manuscript map, in color, drawn by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco in San Felipe, Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1778. It documents the efforts of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition to explore the interior of western North America including parts of present day New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona
Description: Bernardo Miera y Pacheco was the cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante Expedition. The expedition of ten men, led by Franciscan Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, departed Sante Fe in late July 1776 and returned there on 2 January 1777.
Text in Spanish.
Caption title.
Bar scale given in "leguas reguladas las marchas por tierra."
Coordinates on map as: W260 W273/N42 N35.
Relief shown pictorially.
Note in later hand at upper edge of map: Map of New Mexico with the latest discoveries.
Accompanied by a reduction photographic negative.
Provenance: Previously owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Edward E. Eberstadt & Sons (Parke-Bernet Galleries sale, 1969 October 28, lot 1057) on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969.
Extent: 1 manuscript map : 28 x 40 cm on sheet 30 x 42 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:3,250,000]
Coordinates: (W 112⁰ W 105⁰/N 40⁰ N 34⁰).
Language: Spanish

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS S-2856
Container / Volume: Box (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Maps
Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps
Material: colored ;
Subject (Geographic): Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Southwest, New
Utah
Subject (Name): Miera y Pacheco, Bernardo de.
Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, active 1776.
Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792.
Domínguez-Escalante Expedition
Subject (Topic): Maps
Subjects: Miera y Pacheco, Bernardo de.
Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, active 1776
Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792
Domínguez-Escalante Expedition (1776)
Arizona > Maps > Early works to 1800
Colorado > Maps > Early works to 1800
New Mexico > Maps > Early works to 1800
Southwest, New > Maps > Early works to 1800
Utah > Maps > Early works to 1800

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Citation: Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, Plano geografico de los descubrimientos hechos por Dn. Bernardo Miera y Pacheco y los RRs. Ps. Fr. Francisco Atanasio Dominguez y Fr. Silvestre Veles. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 11705644
Object ID (OID): 2002707