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The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides 1630
by Afonso de Benavides (c1578-1635) translated by Edward E Ayer, annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis
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About This Item
xiii+309 pages with maps to pastedowns and end papers,plates, facsimiles and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Foreword by James P Davis. First published in 1916. Published in five languages before the end of seventeenth century. An offshoot of the colonial Mexican Church, the New Mexico missions were not unlike other mission provinces in the Americas. In his Memorial, Benavides offers a composite, albeit romanticized, view of "the pious tasks of the friars in these conversions." Condition: Jacket price clipped, edge wear, spine sunned else very good to fine in a better than very good jacket.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Title
- The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides 1630
- Author
- Afonso de Benavides (c1578-1635) translated by Edward E Ayer, annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Better than very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Horn and Wallace Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Borderlands
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colonial America;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- New
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