Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 159

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(TEXAS.) Vilaplana, Hermenegildo de. Vida portentosa del americano septentrional apostol, el V. P. Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesus. Frontispiece portrait. [16], 335 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; moderate foxing. Madrid: San Martín, 1775
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Second edition, after the 1763 México first edition. A life of the Franciscan Antonio Margil, who founded several pioneering missions in Texas from 1716 to 1721, particularly at San Antonio. The Texas adventures are here recounted on pages 149 to 163. Howes V98 ("b"); Palau 365781; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 142a.