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HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PRIMERIA ALTA: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF CALIFORNIA, SONORA, AND ARIZONA ... 1683-1711 ... by Kino, Eusebio F - 1919

by Kino, Eusebio F

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HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PRIMERIA ALTA: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF CALIFORNIA, SONORA, AND ARIZONA ... 1683-1711 ...

by Kino, Eusebio F

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Cleveland: Clark, 1919. First Edition. 2 vols.:379; 329pp. Illus., 7 maps and plates included in pagination. Original cloth. First edition. Spain in the West Series Vols. 3-4. Howes K169: "First publication of the original Jesuit manuscript; of great value on the early Southwest." Edited by Herbert E. Bolton. One of 750 sets.
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  • Publisher Clark
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  • Date Published 1919
  • Keywords HOWES; NATIVE AMERICANS; RELIGION; WESTERN AMERICANA; SPANISH SOUTHWEST; CALIFORNIA
KINO REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S. J. from New Spain with Rome....

KINO REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S. J. from New Spain with Rome. Original Spanish Text of Fourteen Unpublished Letters and Reports with English Translation and Notes.

by [Kino, Eusebio F., S.J. 1645 - 1711] Burrus, Ernest J., S.J

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Rome, Italy:: INSTITUTUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS JESU,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.. First edition. In addition to being a Jesuit missionary, Kino was a geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. During the last 24 years of his life he worked in the Pimera Alta (modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States) where he explored the region and worked with the Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham. He led an overland expedition to the Baja California Territory to prove that it was not an island but a peninsula. Index, 135 pp plus a supplement on glossy stock which includes black and white plates of the Kino's original documents plus a fold out map, complete.
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