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Spanish Exploration List
Last updated December 21, 2011
1. Bacigalupa, Andrea. SANTOS
AND SAINTS' DAYS.. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone
Press, 1972. 32 pages. Softbound covers. Light wear to the edges of the covers.
$5.75
2. Baegert, Johann Jakob. Observations
in Lower California.. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1979. 238 pages. Light shelf wear. Very nice copy. $33.00
3. Briggs, Walter. WITHOUT
NOISE OF ARMS: THE 1776 DOMINGUEZ-ESCALANTE SEARCH FOR A ROUTE FROM SANTA FE TO
MONTEREY.. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press,
1976. 212 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine edges and corners. Dust jacket has
slight edge-wear and a couple of small tears to the edges. Illustrated with oil
paintings by Wilson Hurley. $10.00
4. Burrus, Ernest J. JUAN
MARIA DE SALVATIERRA S.J.: SELECTED LETTERS ABOUT LOWER CALIFORNIA.. Los
Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1971. 279 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing
to spine and corners. Limited to 600 copies. $28.50
5. Burrus, Ernest J. KINO
REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: CORRESPONDENCE OF EUSEBIO F. KINO, S.J. FROM NEW SPAIN
WITH ROME.. Rome, Italy: Institutum Historicum
Societatis Jesu, 1954. 135 pages. Signed by the author/translator. Blue cloth
binding. VG condition. $45.00
6. Chipman, Donald E. NUNO
DE GUZMAN AND THE PROVINCE OF PANUCO ON NEW SPAIN, 1518-1533. Glendale,
Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1967. 322 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to
spine and corners. $28.00
7. de Espinosa, Antonio Vazquez. DESCRIPTION
OF THE INDIES (C. 1620).. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. 862 pages. Shelf wear to binding and
rubbing to spine and corners. Top front cover is bumped. $12.50
8. de Espinosa, Isidro Felix. CRONICA
DE LA PROVINCIA FRANCISCANA DE LOS APOSTOLES SAN PEDRO Y SAN PABLO DE MICHOACAN..
Mexico: M. L. Sanchez, 1945. 532 pages. Larger
softcover binding. There is some wear to the edges of the spine and the covers,
with some darkening to the cover edges. A couple of small tears to the bottom
and top of the spine. A few soiled spots to binding. The binding is tight and
the pages are clean. Some pages uncut. A very scarce history of the San Pedro
and San Pablo de Michoacan Francsican provinces. Text is in Spanish. $150.00
9. Dunne, Peter Masten. EARLY
JESUIT MISSIONS IN TARAHUMARA.. Berkeley:
University of California, 1948. 276 pages. Some shelf wear to binding and
rubbing to spine and corners. $10.00
10. Frontain, Dick. SAN
XAVIER DEL BAC: POEM OF THE DESERT.. Tucson,
Arizona: Los Amigos, 1972. 36 pages. Limited edition to 2,000 copies, signed by
the author. Large softcover binding. There is slight fading to the paper on the
edges of the covers. $24.00
11. Hodge, Frederick Webb-editor. SPANISH
EXPLORERS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES, 1528-1543.. New
York: Barnes & Noble, 1959. 413 pages. Some shelf wear to the binding. Dust
jacket has some wear to the edges. $7.50
12. Kessell, John L. FRIARS,
SOLDIERS, AND REFORMERS: HISPANIC ARIZONA AND THE SONORA MISSION FRONTIER,
1767-1856.. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona
Press, 1976. 347 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has some wear to
the edges. $54.00
13. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. VOYAGES
OF FRANCISCO DE ORTEGA, CALIFORNIA 1632-1636.. Los
Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. 75 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine and
corners. Limited to 500 copies. $55.00
14. Mathes, W. Michael. CLEMENTE
GUILLEN, EXPLORER OF THE SOUTH. DIARIES OF THE OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS TO BAHIA
MAGDALENA AND LA PAZ, 1719, 1720-1721.. Los
Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1979. 99 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Light wear
only. $28.50
15. Matson, Daniel S. & Bernard L.
Fontana-editors. FRIAR BRINGAS REPORTS TO THE KING:
METHODS OF INDOCTRINATION ON THE FRONTIER OF NEW SPAIN, 1796-97.. Tucson,
Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1977. 177 pages. VG in lightly worn dust
jacket. $15.50
16. Nutt, Catherine F. THE
SPANISH SOUTHWEST, 1519-1776 AND AFTER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED TITLES TO
COMMEMORATE THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE UNITED STATES.. Flagstaff,
Arizona: Northern Arizona University, 1976. 60 pages. Softbound covers. Some
wear. $15.00
17. Paylore, Patricia P. KINO,
A COMMEMORATION. . Tucson: Arizona Pioneers'
Historical Society, 1961. Softbound covers. Slight wear. With three articles by
Patricia P. Paylore, Ted De Grazia, and Donald M. Powell. $19.00
18. Schmidt, Robert H. A
GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF SINALOA.. El Paso, Texas:
Texas Western Press, 1976. 77 pages. Softbound covers. Light wear to the covers.
$5.25
19. Smith, Benjamin F. THE
CORA INDIANS OF BAJA CALIFORNIA: THE RELACION OF FATHER IGNACIO MARIA NAPOLI,
S.J. September 20, 1721.. Los Angeles: Dawson's
Book Shop, 1970. 76 pages. Clean and tight binding. Light wear to spine and
corners. Folding map is present inside the back cover. Limited to 500 copies.
$36.50
20. Vaquero, Quinton Aldea-et al. DICCIONARIO
DE HISTORIA ECLESIASTICA DE ESPANA. Volume I (A-C) only.. Madrid,
Spain: Instituto Enrique Florez, 1972. 671 pages. This is volume I only. Ex-
$40.00
21. Wagner, Henry R. THE
SPANISH SOUTHWEST, 1542-1794: Two volume set. . New
York: Arno Press, 1967. 269 pages. Two volume set. Arno Press 1967 reprint of
the Quivera Society original edition. Near new condition. $60.00
22. Zevallos, Francisco. THE
APOSTOLIC LIFE OF FERNANDO CONSAG: EXPLORER OF LOWER CALIFORNIA.. Los
Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. 93 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine and
corners. Limited to 500 copies. $40.00