FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES IN HISPANIC CALIFORNIA, 1769-1848: A Biographical Dictionary
San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Maynard Geiger on the front flyleaf. The culmination of twenty-five years of labor, this indispensable work presents biographies of 142 Franciscan priests who brought Christianity to California. Each portrait gives insights into each friar's spiritual, intellectual, physical, and civic contributions to the work of the Franciscans in California during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the library of historian John Haskell Kemble, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo: xiv, 304 pp. with a frontispiece map. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles. A near fine copy in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Zamorano Select 30. Near fine / Very good. Item #78796
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