Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1754.) Venegas, Miguel. El Apostol Mariano representado en la vida del V. P. Juan Maria de Salvatierra, de la Compañia de Jesus, fervoroso missionero en la provincia de Nueva-España, y conquistador apostolico de las Californias. [12], 316, [6] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; dampstaining and worming causing large hole in margin from pages 73-118, text legible throughout; marca de fuego of the Colegio de Guadalupe in Zacatecas (BEFK-12094) on lower edge, bookplate of Manuel Ramírez de Arellano on front pastedown. Mexico: María de Ribera, 1754
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The life of the Father Salvatierra, Jesuit founder of the first mission in Baja California in 1697, and founder of the Pious Fund of the Californias. In 1717, he was ordered to Mexico City to help write a history of the Californias, but died en route. Cowan 1933, page 657; Howes V68 ("b"); Medina, Mexico 4210; Palau 358385; Sabin 98842; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 130.