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(TEXAS.) Vilaplana, Hermenegildo de.
Vida portentosa del americano
septentrional apostol, el V. P. Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesus.
Frontispiece portrait.
[16], 335 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; moderate foxing.
Madrid: San Martín, 1775
[2,000/3,000]
Second edition, after the 1763 México first edition. A life of the Franciscan Antonio Margil,
who founded several pioneering missions in Texas from 1716 to 1721, particularly at San
Antonio. The Texas adventures are here recounted on pages 149 to 163. Howes V98 (“b”);
Palau 365781; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 142a.
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(URUGUAY.) See Paraguay.