Search Results: my life among the savage nations by ribas andres perez

Los Angeles, California: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edition not stated. No indication of later printings in this edition. Red cloth with gilt titles. Boards clean and solid, light shelf wear. Spine ends gently bumped. Binding firm. Top edge of text block with foxing, rest with light foxing. Contents clean, gift inscription on front end paper else unmarked. DJ price clipped, edges rubbed with a few closed tears. Large tear at spine head and top edge of rear panel, loss affecting title at spine extending about 3" down. Spine sunned..

dust-jacket is sunned along the spine, and has light edge wear, a couple of small closed tears, text is unmarked, nice, clean copy

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 13)

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. By Andres Perez de Ribas, Padre Provincial of the Company of Jesus of New Spain (Mexico) . Written in the year 1644 and entitled "Triumphs of Our Saintly Faith Among Peoples Most Barbarous and Savage of the New Orb." Translated in condensed form by Tomas Antonio Robertson, native of the Rio Fuerte (Gran Rio de Zauque) of the former Province of Sinaloa, Mexico. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY TOMAS ANTONIO ROBERTSON. Light sunning to spine otherwise clean and tight. . Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Los Angeles.: Ward Ritchie Press., 1968.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover.. Fine copy. . Octavo.. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Los Angeles.: Ward Ritchie Press., 1968.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover.. Fine copy. New in shrink wrap.. Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

PEREZ de RIBAS, Andres. My Life Among the Savage Nations of New Spain. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1968]. 1st American ed. xvi,256 pp. Illus., map. Orig. pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. A few pencilled marginal notes to early pages, else very good or better. An account written in 1644 of Jesuit missionaries in the new world.

San Francisco; Los Angeles: John Howell; Ward Ritchie 1980; 1968. Fine. 1980. Hardcover. Quartos; dust jackets; illustrations, maps, including large folding map in rear pocket of Kingdom. Fine s, with protective mylar wrap .

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [10.5x7.25in]; xvi, 256 pp., 4 maps and 49 black and white illustrations, index; Burgundy cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and gilt cross on front, tan end papers, all edges trimmed; Burnt orange dust jacket with black lettering on front and spine, illustration of padrè in white field on front; Minimal shelf wear to dust jacket, several chips on back top edge and corner, spine color faded.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press. Hardcover. 1968. 8vo 256pp . Very Good in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. One corner slightly bumped. A dedicated group of Jesuit padres converted about 300, 000 Indians over a 50 year period. Never before translated Perez de Ribas was Padre Provincial of the Company of Jesus of New Spain (Mexico) . Written in the year 1644 and entitled " Triumphs of Our Saintly Faith Among Peoples Most Barbarous and Savage of the New Orb. " Translated in condensed form by Tomas Antonio Robertson .

Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, (1968).. First Edition in English. Folio (27 x 18 cm.), publisher's cloth with dust jacket (small repairs to dust jacket with tape, spine slightly faded). Overall in very good condition. xvi, 256 pp., with maps and black & white photos. *** First English translation, and apparently the first translation to any language, by Thomas A. Robertson, of Perez de Ribas' fascinating history of the Jesuit missions in Sinaloa from 1590 to 1644, originally published as Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee …, Madrid, 1645. It is also important for the early history of California and includes information on Florida. Abridged (with profuse apologies) by the translator.*** On the first edition, see Wagner, Spanish Southwest 43.

Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 256 pages; Description: xvi, 256 p. Illus. , maps, ports. 27 cm. Subjects: Perez de Ribas, Andres (1576-1655) . Jesuits --Missions --Mexico --History --17th century. Indians of Mexico --Missions.