Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta, A Contemporary Account of the Beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona by Father Eusebio Kino, S.J., Pioneer Missionary, Explorer, Cartographer, and Ranchman 1683-1711
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1919.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Spain in the West volumes III & IV. 379 + 329 pp, with 7 plates, folding map. Publisher’s original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, corners rubbed, internally sound and clean. Clark & Brunet 160: "The first publication of Kino's history in any language. He was one of the most remarkable of the many remarkable men to serve in the missions of the Spanish borderlands. He made approximately 40 expeditions into Arizona and up to the Gila and Colorado Rivers. One of his purposes was to try to prove that California was not an island." Howes K-169: "The original Jesuit manuscript; of grave value on the early southwest." Adams, Herd, 1282.
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Price: $500.00