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The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630.

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Title: The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630.
Author: Benavides, Alonso de.
Description: Trans. by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis. xii, 309 pp. Illus. with gravure plates from photographs by A.C. Vroman, Charles F. Lummis, Jack Hillers & others; facsimiles. 9x6½, brown & tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. No. 241 of 300 copies printed at the Lakeside Press.Laid in is a prospectus from W.H. Lowdermilk & Company and a letter from Frederick Webb Hodge on Museum of the American Indian letterhead. Contains a full facsimile of the rare original 1630 printing, seminal to the study of early New Mexico, being the chronicle of both an observer and a participant in the Spanish expansion into the Southwest. Rader 332
Heading: Place Published: Chicago
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date Published: 1916