Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630
by Ayer, Mrs. Edward E., Translated by. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Chicago, IL, 1916. Limited . Cloth. Good. 8vo. Privately printed by the Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this copy out of series. Dark brown three-quarter cloth and tan cloth over boards, top edge gilt, xiii, 309 pp., xliv plates. Introduction by Charles F. Lummis. English translation of the Memorial and Spanish text printed in facsimile, illustrated with photogravures from photographs of the Southwest mostly by Lummis, as well as a few by A. C. Vroman. Printer's file copy with the book plate of the Lakeside Press Library on front pastedown (offsetting to free endpaper) and second book plate, upside down on rear pastedown, of the Lakeside Press and R. R. Donnelly & Sons, with case and shelf number noted. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped; head, heel and edges of spine and edges and corners of boards rubbed, with a couple of tiny nicks at edges; covers dustsoiled overall, page edges tanned; pages roughly opened and bumped in a few places at fore-edge, including creases to two leaves in Index.
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- Bookseller
- Crane's Bill Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012422
- Title
- Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630
- Author
- Ayer, Mrs. Edward E., Translated by. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1916
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Spanish Conquest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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