Title: Life of Ven. Padre Junipero Serra Written by Very Rev. Francis Palou, Guardian of the Convent of San Fernando, Mexico Author: Palou, Francisco Place: San Francisco Publisher: P.E. Dougherty & Co. Date: 1884 Description: 156 pp. Translated by Very Rev. J. Adam Lithographed frontispiece portrait. 7½x5, original green cloth stamped in black. Second Edition in English. The "most extensive early work on Upper California," first published in Mexico in 1787, with the English translation published in San Francisco in 1874, with the present publication following that. Howes P56. J. Gregg Layne's copy, with his bookplate. Lot Amendments Condition: A little extremity rubbing; ink name on front free endpaper dated 1890, very good or better. Item number: 170820
Title: Life of Ven. Padre Junipero Serra Written by Very Rev. Francis Palou, Guardian of the Convent of San Fernando, Mexico Author: Palou, Francisco Place: San Francisco Publisher: P.E. Dougherty & Co. Date: 1884 Description: 156 pp. Translated by Very Rev. J. Adam Lithographed frontispiece portrait. 7½x5, original green cloth stamped in black. Second Edition in English. The "most extensive early work on Upper California," first published in Mexico in 1787, with the English translation published in San Francisco in 1874, with the present publication following that. Howes P56. J. Gregg Layne's copy, with his bookplate. Lot Amendments Condition: A little extremity rubbing; ink name on front free endpaper dated 1890, very good or better. Item number: 170820
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