Ruiz Montoya en Indias (1608-1652)

Madrid: V. Suárez, 1900. Tomos 1-2 only (of 4) bound together as one. Octavo in hand some half dark blue calf and blue marbled boards; 336, 341 pp.19cm. Title page of volume two bound in upside down; origial wrappers lacking. Scholarly hand-written notes in pencil and pen to front free enpaper verso and a small white folded leaf neatly glued in. Very small (one inch) superfical closed crack to front joiont leather (barely nticed). Very good+ this, Binding clean and tight. .

Handsome custom binding. In Spanish. Series: Colección de libros raros y curiosos que tratan de América, t. XVI[-XIX]. Reprint of the original edition of 1662, ed. by P. Vindel.Not to be confused with "Vidas del p. Antonio Ruiz de Montoya y del p. Joseph Cotaldino". Zaragoza. M. de Lima, 1662, by Juan Antonio Xarque, brother of Francisco. cf. Antonio, Ternaux-Compans, de Backer-Sommervogel, Latassa, and Medina. List of the author's works, quoted from Latassa, t. l., p. 7-8. MISIONES JESUITICAS -- PARAGUAY -- HISTORIA. Named Person: Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio, 1585-1652. RUIZ DE MONTOYA, ANTONIO, 1585-1652. Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio, 1585-1652. Jesuits -- Paraguay. JESUITAS -- PERU -- BIOGRAFIAS. JESUITAS -- PARAGUAY -- HISTORIA. Jesuits.