Rodriguez de San Miguel, Juan:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

DOCUMENTOS RELATIVOS AL PIADOSO FONDO DE MISIONES PARA CONVERSION Y CIVILIZACION DE LAS NUMEROSAS TRIBUS BARBARAS DE LA ANTIGUA Y NUEVA CALIFORNIA. A collection of twenty-three documents describing the urgent need for funds for the church in California. These include the law of Sept. 19, 1836; the decrees of Santa Anna of Feb. 8 and Oct. 24, 1842; and other communications from the "apoderados" addressed to the government. Rodriguez writes in the first numbered section that he had hoped to publish further documents, but limited resources allowed him to print only the twenty-three found here. A later printing of this work added twenty-eight pages of additional material.The Streeter copy sold to Ximenes Rare Books for $50 in 1968, and is now in the Princeton University Library.

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