1932 · Los Angeles
by Siguenza Y Gongora, Carlos De
Los Angeles: Quivira Society, 1932. First edition in English, #73/665 copies. 8vo. 136 pp. 11 plates, folding map; with a facsimile of the original Spanish text. Several of the plates picture pueblos and villages in the early 1900s. Howes S-455: "Best contemporary chronicle of the 1692 reconquest of New Mexico by Diego de Vargas, based on that commander's report to the Spanish viceroy." Original parchment-backed gilt-stamped decorated boards, gilt spine title. Very good. (59633).
(Inventory #: 59633)