This Spanish manuscript chart displays a region in the Southern part of the California peninsula. It is from the collection of the Marqués de Pidal who was an active book collector (1846-1913), politician and philanthropist. A very handsome early manuscript map of the Bahia de Paz in Baja California. First visited in 1535 by Hernan Cortes, the first settlement was made by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1596. The City of La Paz is the capital of Baja California Sur. The map shows all of the Bay of La Paz, with many missions and settlement, few of which appear on modern maps. Several islands in the bay seem to have disappeared. North of the Isla del Espiritu Santo, two spouting whales enter the Bay through a channel called the Pasa de Ballenas.” Provenance: Marquis de Pidal collection, dispersed during the last part in the 1970s.