SONORA: A Description of the Province
Albuquerque: Univ of New Mexico, 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Item #xxx009
1st printing of UNM Press reprint. Royal 8vo gilt-stamped cloth. 329pp. Illustrated with photos. Appendices. Index. Folding map in front of Appendix A "To accompany..." Quoting JSTOR, From the pen of an eighteenth-century German Jesuit has come thisDescription of Sonora,¹ a geographical, historical, and ethnographical description of Sonora, Mexico. Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn, the author, was missionary to the land which he has so painstakingly described. He came to Sonora as a young man and spent eleven very active years among the Pima, Opata, and Eudebe Indians before the expulsion of the Society forced his departure. Subsequent to the expulsion, Pfefferkorn with a number of his companions was held captive in Spain under suspicion of treason. Eight years of enforced sojourn in Spain were finally terminated Upper fore corner of front board bumped, else fine copy in good dj graded such because of large chip at head of backstrip. Rather scarce in this edition. "A Southwestern Classic" (JSTOR).
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