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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

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