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Trans. by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis. xii, 309 pp. Illus. with gravure plates from photographs by A.C. Vroman, Charles F. Lummis, Jack Hillers & others; facsimiles. 9x6½, brown & tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. No. 130 of 300 copies printed at the Lakeside Press.

 With bookplate of Isidori Bernardi Dockweiler. This important work, edited by Mrs. Edward Ayer, translates the memorial of Franciscan Alonso Benavides, the best account of early 17th-century New Mexico. Extensive notes by Charles F. Lummis and Frederick Webb Hodge supplement the narrative. Of the greatest interest, however, are the extraordinary gravure illustrations from photographs by Adam Clark Vroman and Charles F. Lummis.  Also contains a full facsimile of the rare original 1630 printing, seminal to the study of early New Mexico, being the chronicle of both an observer and a participant in the Spanish expansion into the Southwest. Rader 332