The Mercurio volante of Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; an account of the first expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692 / translated, with introduction and notes, by Irving Albert Leonard ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700.

Contributor:

Leonard, Irving A. (Irving Albert), 1896-1996, translator.

John Carter Brown Library.

Series:

Quivira Society publications ; v. 3.

Quivira Society publications

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Pueblo Indians.

Indians of North America.

New Mexico--History.

New Mexico.

History.

Vargas, Diego de, 1643-1704.

Vargas, Diego de.

Indians of North America--New Mexico--Early works to 1800.

Pueblo Indians--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

89 pages, facsimile (91 unnumbered pages-128 pages), 129-136 pages : illustrations (coat of arms) XII plates (including frontispiece (portrait) folded map) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Quivira Society, 1932.

Notes:

"Thirty five copies printed on Rives paper for the Quivira Society. This copy not numbered."

"The Mercurio volante ... is here reproduced in facsimile ... from an original in the possession of the John Carter Brown Library of Providence, Rhode Island."--Introd., p. 46.

Facsimile has title: Mercurio volante con la noticia de la recuperacion de las provincias del Nvevo Mexico consegvida por d. Diego de Vargas, Zapata, y Luxan Ponze de Leon, governador y capitan general de aquel reyno. Escriviola por especial orden de el excelentissimo senõr conde de Galve virrey, governador, y capitan general de la Nueva-España, &c. don Carlos de Sigvenza, y Gongora ... Con licencia en Mexico: En la Imprenta de Antuerpia de los herederos de la viuda de Bernardo Calderon, año de l693.

The English translation (p. [49]-88) has special t.p., a translation of the original t.p.

OCLC:

3894837