The Missions of New Mexico, 1776

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1956. First Edition. 387pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title in red on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Minor discoloring to jacket's front panel with subtle wear at foot. Translated and annotated by Eleanor B. Adams & Fray Angelico Chavez. Signed by the translators on the half-title. Since its rediscovery in 1928, the unparalleled Domínguez report has often been compared to the 1630 and 1634 memorials of Fray Alonso de Benavides. In this work Domínguez shows the keen eye and curiosity of a born observer. From no other document do we learn so much about daily life in raw and remote late colonial New Mexico. (Inventory #: 10062)