The Journal of Jose Salaices 1789-1818. Translation, notes, and text by Diana Ortega DeSantis. Illustrative material by Deborah Reade.

Salaices, Jose.

Verlag: [Santa Fe, New Mexico]: Press of the Palace of the Governors 1998.

Beschreibung

ÒIn 1992, while developing an exhibition about Hispanic residents of New Mexico in the late Spanish Colonial period, Palace of the Governors Museum curator Diana DeSantis discovered the Salaices manuscript in the MuseumÕs History Library. [The present work] is her translation of the journal, along with commentary on some of the people and places mentioned by Jos Salaices, and a revealing look at everyday life in Spanish Colonial New Mexico compiled by DeSantis from her extensive researchÓ (p. 4). Quarto. 25, [1, colophon] pp. Illustrated with two maps, one full-page, a chart, and other drawings by artist Deborah Reade; numerous facsimile journal entries by Peterson Engravings, Los Angeles. Title-page printed in blue and black and illustrated with the figure of a Spanish Colonial soldier from a late eighteenth-century Cieneguilla, New Mexico prayer book; the soldier was originally hand drawn on the bookÕs leather cover. Printed on handmade Moravia paper. Bound in handmade paper wrappers with vellum ties by Bridget OÕMalley of Cave Paper. Binding designed and executed by Martha Little. A fine copy. One of sixty-five copies designed and letterpress printed by Pamela Smith. Presentation copy, inscribed ÒFor Sam / Pam The Printer.Ó Also signed by the translator. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17209

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Journal of Jose Salaices 1789-1818. ...

Verlag: [Santa Fe, New Mexico]: Press of the Palace of the Governors 1998.

Einband: Softcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers