Item #8106 Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey [Historical account of the life and apostolic tasks of the Venerable Father Fray Junipero Serra, and of the missions he founded in Northern California, and new establishments in Monterey]. Francisco Palou.
Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey [Historical account of the life and apostolic tasks of the Venerable Father Fray Junipero Serra, and of the missions he founded in Northern California, and new establishments in Monterey]
Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey [Historical account of the life and apostolic tasks of the Venerable Father Fray Junipero Serra, and of the missions he founded in Northern California, and new establishments in Monterey]

Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey [Historical account of the life and apostolic tasks of the Venerable Father Fray Junipero Serra, and of the missions he founded in Northern California, and new establishments in Monterey]

Mexico City: Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1786. 344pp. Small quarto [20 cm] Full period leather with gilt stamped bands, author, and partial title on the backstrip. Very good. Gentle overall wear. p. 39/40 damaged at the fore-edge affecting some text - facsimile of 39/40 laid in after. Folding-map in facsimile and laid in at the rear. Frontis portrait of Serra present. Item #8106

This is the first book on the founder of the California Mission System, Junipero Serra, by his companion, Francisco Palou, and the most important book on early California. Zamorano Eighty:59 Howes P56. Cowan p. 172. Sabin 58392. Graff 3179. Best of the West 15. Wheat 208.

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