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First Expedition of Vargas Into New Mexico, 1692 [Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications V. X]

Espinosa, J. Manuel · Albuquerque

Author
Espinosa, J. Manuel
Date
1940
Place
Albuquerque
Publisher
The University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
Binding
4to.(7" x 10.375") (xi), 319 pp. Lacking dust jacket. First Edition. Full red cloth with gilt lettering to upper board. Lightly sun-faded spine with fading gilt lettering. Minor edgewear, head and foot of spine ruffled. Lighter stains to head of rear board. Small spots of foxing to head textblock and first few leaves, including the title page and portrait frontispiece. Many pages uncut. Illustyrated with photographic frontispiece.
Edition
First Edition
Category
Travel & Exploration
Record
S.I.10341

"First Expedition of Vargas Into New Mexico, 1692" by J. Manuel Espinosa, 1940. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press. First Edition, Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, Volume X. 4to (7" x 10.75"), xi, 319 pages.

This historical volume examines the first expedition of Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692, an important episode in the history of Spanish colonial New Mexico and the Spanish reoccupation of the region. A valuable addition for collectors and researchers interested in New Mexico history, Spanish exploration, and the colonial American Southwest.

Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photographic portrait frontispiece. Many pages remain uncut. The spine is lightly sun-faded, with fading gilt lettering, minor edgewear, and ruffled head and foot. The rear board has lighter staining near the head. Small spots of foxing appear along the head of the text block and on the first few leaves, including the title page and frontispiece. The original dust jacket is absent.

Condition

Very Good

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