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Signed 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 p. with a frontispiece map. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light wear. Zamorano Select 30. Seller Inventory # 75948
Title: FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES IN HISPANIC ...
Publisher: The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 78796
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