Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(ARIZONA.) Bringas de Manzaneda, Diego Manuel. Sermon que en las solemnes honras celebradas . . . Fr. Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garcés. 94 pages. 4to, disbound; minor foxing, tightly trimmed; faint embossed stamp on title page, later owner's inked stamps on flyleaf and page 27. Madrid: Villalpando, 1819

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This sermon was delivered at the memorial service of four missionaries martyred on the Colorado River in 1781. The first half is devoted to historical notes on Franciscan missionaries in Sonora and Arizona. It is something like a sequel to Espinosa's 1746 Chronica Apostolica and Arricivita's 1792 Crónica Seráfica y Apostólica. It was delivered in 1794, but not published until 1819. Howes M269 ("b"); Palau 35871; Streeter sale I:153; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 174a.