first edition
1916 · San Francisco
by Engelhardt, Zephyrin
San Francisco: The James H. Barry Company, 1916. First Editions. 5 volumes. Octavos [24 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Good. Ex-lib. with stamps on the front pastedowns and endsheets and numbers on backstrips. This is the Franciscans' own history of their Order's activities and accomplishments in California. It is biased to the point of bigotry at times, and likewise sinks to complete dreariness. Nevertheless it contains much valuable and fugitive minutiae not to be found elsewhere, and when Father Zephyrin pursues Bancroft - never particularly friendly to the Church or the missionaries - some sparkling passages result. Cowan II p.196. Eberstadt 128: 125. Howes E154. Zamorano Eighty 34. (Inventory #: 9764)