SERRA, Junipero

LETTER OF JUNIPERO SERRA TO THE REVEREND FATHER PREACHER FRAY FERMIN

1970. Item #83132

SERRA, Junipero, transl. Rev. Francis J. WEBER. A LETTER OF JUNIPERO SERRA TO THE REVEREND FATHER PREACHER FRAY FERMIN FRANCISCO DE LAUSEN: A BICENTENNIAL DISCOVERY. Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. First edition, one of five hundred letterpress copies, unnumbered. Fifth in a series of poems,essays, broadsides and tracts. [9] pp. 8vo., grey laid paper wrappers printed in brown and black, with title page woodcut in brown. Fine in publisher's white envelope lettered in red, with a pencil note "Gift of DRG / JHZ." Minor creasing to sides of envelope. Serra, president of the California Missions, writes to his eventual successor (April 17, 1780).

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