17. BENAVIDES, Alonso De. The Memorial of Fray
Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Translated by Mrs. Edward E.
Ayer, Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles
Fletcher Lummis. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1916. xiii
[1] 309 [2] pp., sepia tone photogravures by Charles F.
Lummis, A. C. Vroman, et al., facsimiles. 8vo,
original three-quarter brown buckram over tan cloth, t.e.g.
Fine copy.
Limited
edition (#124 of 300 copies). Graff 250. Rader 332.
Wagner, Spanish Southwest 33n. Basic source on
Arizona and New Mexico by one of the first missionaries in
the Southwest, with outstanding photographs. Pingenot:
Cited by Bancroft as ‘the most important authority
extant.’ The Franciscans were urging the establishment
of New Mexico as a bishopric and Benavides appears to have
published this work partly in support of that move.
($300-600)