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Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast 1769 -1774
by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870-1953)
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- 1927
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lxvi+402 pages with frontispiece, plates, maps, index and errata laid in. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition.
Joan Crespí or Juan Crespí (1721-1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias. Crespí came to New Spain in 1749, and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra. In… Read more about this item Item Price
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Clara y sucinta exposicion del pequeño catecismo : impreso en el idioma mexicano siguiendo el orden mismo de sus preguntas y respuestas, para le mejor instruccion de los feligreses Indios, y de los que comienzan á aprender dicho idioma
by Luis Gutierrez del Corral (1799-1848)
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- 1819
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[3]+66+[1] leaves. Small octavo (6" x 4") bound early vellum with later ties. (Ayer, Nahuatl page 81; Medina, Puebla 1678; Palau 55072; Pilling 808; Sabin 13233) First edition.
A catechism in a more modern colloquial form of Nahuatl, as opposed to the more formal classical Nahuatl featured in the early colonial works. The Nahuatl and Spanish texts appear on facing pages.… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Reglas de orthographia, Diccionario, y Arte del idioma Othomi, Breve instruccion para los principiantes, que dictó, Cathedratico Proprietario de dicho Idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Seminario [.] Dedícalo al Gloriosissimo Señor San Joseph, Padre Putativo del Verbo Eterno, y bajo su Proteccion lo saca à luz.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/671/010/1575010671.0.m.jpg)
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Reglas de orthographia, Diccionario, y Arte del idioma Othomi, Breve instruccion para los principiantes, que dictó, Cathedratico Proprietario de dicho Idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Seminario [.] Dedícalo al Gloriosissimo Señor San Joseph, Padre Putativo del Verbo Eterno, y bajo su Proteccion lo saca à luz.
by Luis de Neve y Molina
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- 1767
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[24]+160 pages lacking frontispiece plate. Small octavo (5 3/4" x 4") bound in contemporary vellum. Sabin 52413. Medina, Mexico 5174; Palau 190159 First edition.
A dictionary of the Otomi language.
The author was the first to establish a proper system of characters, which has been since retained.
Otomi is an Oto-Pamean language spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ordenanzas para el govierno de la labor de monedas, que se fabricaren en la Real Casa de Moneda de Mexico
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- 1771
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[6]+59 pages. Folio (11 3/4" x 8") contemporary gilt calf with gilt decoration to cover edges. (Medina, Mexico 5454; Palau 203103) Second Mexican edition.
Regulations for the production of coins at Mexico's royal mint.
Condition: Moderate scuffing to calf; moderate worming to inner margin not affecting text, moderate foxing, a few passages underlined in blue pencil; early owners' inscriptions on title page… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memorias para la Historia Natural de California Relacion del Padre Manuel de la Vega
by Manuel de la Vega
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- 1945
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vi+[7]-31 pages with two maps (one folding) and illustration. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Memorias para la Historia Natural de California Number 1. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 64.
In 1943, Louis Vargas Rea began a series of limited edition publications on a great variety of subjects all dealing with Hispanic America, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Confessionario mayor, y menor en lengua mexicana, y platicas contra las supresticiones.
by Bartolomé de Alva (c1597-?)
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- 1634
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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.[4]+52 leaves. Small quarto (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original contemporary vellum. A confessional in parallel Nahuatl and Spanish. (Medina, Mexico 444; Palau 9049; Pilling 70; Sabin 48375) First edition.
Don Bartolomé de Alva was a Novohispanic mestizo secular priest and Nahuatl translator. Alva was one of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memorias para la Historia Natural de California: Carta del Padre Juan Maria Salvatierra al Fiscal de Guadalaxara 1699
by Juan María Salvatierra (1648-1717)
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- 1946
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227-294 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Number 5 in a series of 6.
Juan María de Salvatierra, declining a position in the cathedral, he received permission to devote himself to the conversion of the indigenous people of southwestern North America, and in June 1680 set out for the lands of the Tarahumara people in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Carta Pastoral que el ilustrísimo Señor don Fray Joseph Antonio de San Alberto, Arzobispo de la Plata, dirige a todos los que en el pasado Concurso han sido nombrados, y elegidos para Curas
by José Antonio De San Alberto (1727-1804)
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- 1791
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[4]+676 pages with errata f after title, signature 4H duplicated. Small quarto (8 x 5 3/4") bound in later limp vellum with lettering to spine.
(Furlong II, 367; Gutierrez 54; Medina 130; Palau 289494;Sabin 75976) First edition.
San Alberto entered the Discalced Carmelites of Aragon at an early age, taught for many years in Huesca and Calatayud, and filled a number… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Camino del cielo en lengua mexicana: con todos los requisitos necessarios para conseguir este fin, co[n] todo lo que vn [Christ]iano deue creer, saber, y obrar, desde el punto que tiene vso de razon, hasta que muere](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/798/435/1552435798.0.m.jpg)
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Camino del cielo en lengua mexicana: con todos los requisitos necessarios para conseguir este fin, co[n] todo lo que vn [Christ]iano deue creer, saber, y obrar, desde el punto que tiene vso de razon, hasta que muere
by Martín de León
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- 1611
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[12]+160+[7] leaves with 2 woodcut illustrations. Small quarto (7 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original contemporary vellum with hand written title to spine. (Woodbridge, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, page 26). Medina, Mexico 260; Palau 135423; Pilling 2252; Sabin 40080 ("extremely scarce") First edition.
An early catechism, confessional, and church calendar in Nahuatl, with Spanish on facing pages in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century
by George Alexander Kubler (1912-1996)
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- 1948
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2 volumes. xviii+230 pages with frontispiece, tables, charts, drawings, illustrations, plates and folding map. viii+[231]-574 pages with tables, charts, drawings, illustrations, plates, appendix and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Yale Historical Publications; History of Art Volume V. First editions.
George Kubler was an American art historian and among the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Coahuila y Texas: Desde la Consumacion de la Independencia Hasta el Tratado de Paz de Guadalupe Hidalgo
by Vito Alessio Robles (1879-1957)
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- 1945-1946
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2 volumes. xvi+542 pages with color frontispiece, maps (some foldout), diagrams, and illustrations. 540 pages with frontispiece, folding maps, plates, figures, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original wrappers. (Howes 382) Limited to 2000 copies.
Vito Alessio Robles was born son of Dominic Alessio and Cristina Robles. He studied at the Ateneo Fuente. He graduated as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Colección de providencias diocesanas del Obispado de la Puebla de los Angeles, hechas y ordenadas por su Señoria ilustrisima el Sr. Dr. D. Francisco Fabian y Fuero, Obispo de dicha ciudad y obispado del consejo de su Mag
by Francisco Fabián y Fuero (1719-1801)
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- 1770
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2 volumes in one. [4]+656 pages with armorial engraving on title page. [2]+185+[13] pages. Folio (11" x 7 1/2) bound in later 1/2 calf with gilt lettering to spine. (Sabin 23592, 66551. Medina, Puebla 860; Palau 56648) First edition.
It contains a collection of rules and ordinances for civil and religious conduct in Puebla, based on the third Mexican Council of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosi, 1692-1826
by Enrique Tandeter (1944-2004)
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- 1993
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- 9780826314307
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xvi+331 pages with map, tables, graphs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Translated by Richard Warren. First American edition.
In this revised version of his doctoral thesis, Tandeter examines the resurgence of silver production from the famous silver mines of Potosi (Bolivia) between the 1730s… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vasco De Quiroga and His Pueblo-Hospitals of Santa Fe
by Warren Benedict Fintan
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- 1963
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$125.00
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x+133 pages with frontispiece, plates, bibliography and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and insignia to cover. Academy of American Franciscan History Monograph Series Volume Seven. First edition.
Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78-1565), one of the truly great figures sent from Spain to New Spain in the sixteenth century, stands… Read more about this item Item Price
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First Establishment of the Faith in New France
by Chrestien Le Clercq (1647-c1700) translated by John Dawson Gilmary Shea
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- 1881-1882
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2 volumes. 410+[1] pages with frontispiece and plates. 354 pages with frontispiece, folding maps, plates and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine and head end pages gilt. (Field 903; Howes L-172; Lande 519) First edition into English, first published in French in 1691.
According to the editor, Le… Read more about this item Item Price
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Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century, Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration
by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870-1953)
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- 1915
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x+[4]-501 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2') bound in original publisher's wrappers. University of California Publications in History Volume III. First edition.
This book, as its title indicates, treats of the history Spanish province of Texas during the middle eighteenth after the conquest and occupation of that region had been definitely… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jose De Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain (1765-1771)
by Herbert Ingram Priestley (1875-1944)
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- 1916
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xiii+449 pages with frontispiece, foldout maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, footnotes and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover, deckled fore and bottom edges. University of California Publications in History Volume V. First edition.
José de Gálvez y Gallardo, 1st Marquess of Sonora (1720-1787) was a Spanish… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ally of Cortes: Account 13, of the Coming of the Spaniards and the Beginning of the Evangelical Law
by Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl (c1568-1648) signed by Carl Hertzog
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- 1969
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- 9780874040159
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xxxviii+141 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, glossary and bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over orange pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated with a foreword by Douglas Ballentine. Signed by Carl Hertzog.
This work paints the origins of the forced marriage of Spanish and Indian cultures.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Formative Years of the Missionary College of Santa Cruz of Queretaro 1683-1733
by Michael Brendan McCloskey (1910-1970)
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- 1955
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xiv+128 pages with bibliography and index. Quarto (10 1/2" x 63/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial insignia to front cover in original jacket. Publications of the Academy of American Franciscan History, Monograph Series volume 2. First edition.
The emergence of late-colonial mission complexes in the northern reaches of New Spain in the late… Read more about this item Item Price
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History and General Description of New France
by Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761)
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- 1900
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$700.00
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6 volumes. xiv-[15]-286+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, folding maps, plates, bibliography and tables. iv-[5]-284+6+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, facsimiles, plates and folding maps. vi-[7]-312+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece and folding maps. viii-[9]-308+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, folding map, facsimiles and plate. xi-[12]-311 pages with frontispiece, maps and facsimiles. x-[11]-256+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, plate, maps… Read more about this item Item Price
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