Ayer Mrs Edward Frederick Webb (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st of this Ed. xiii+309pp, illus, photos, notes, index, map endpapers, dj nice Redo of an early & indispensible source of SW history.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Facsimile Reprint. 309 Pages Indexed. Black pebble texture boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name was on the top of the front endpaper is now blacked out. No other marks to the book. There are three light black marks on the dust jacket front and a 1/4" tear on spine. This is a Memorandum to the King of Spain, Philip IV written by Fray Alonso de Benavides, first religious superior of the missions in New Mexico is for us of this twentieth century a tour of the Pueblos and the lands of other indigenous peoples of the Land of Enchantment. The wealth of information made available to us in this appeal to the King for men and money for the missions constitutes a first hand account of the places and peoples in the vast territory which we know as Southern, Central and Northern New Mexico plus portions of North Eastern Arizona. Written in the year 1626 this memorandum of Fray Alonso de Benavides is an eye-witness account of his travels through the new mission territory entrusted to him as "Guardian" by his religious superiors of the Order of Friars Minor in June of that same year. In Franciscan chronicles this new mission territory was known as the Province of the Conversion of St. Paul. This is a facsimile copy of the 1916 original. He was the first religious superior of the missions in New Mexico and it is an appeal to the King of Spain for men and money for the missions and constitutes a first hand account of the places and peoples in NM and AZ. Illustrated with photogravures.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Limited. 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.