{"product_id":"1737-espinosa-peregrino-septentrional-atlante-texas-uncensored","title":"El Peregrino Septentrional Atlante: Delineado en la Vida del Venerable Padre F. Antonio Margil de Jesus, ...","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"10\"\u003e(Texas) Espinosa, Isidro Felix de. El Peregrino Septentrional Atlante: Delineado en la Vida del Venerable Padre F. Antonio Margil de Jesus, .... Mexico: Por Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1737. FIRST EDITION.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"11\"\u003e8vo - 8\" x 5-7\/8\". [38], 456, [4] pp., plus [1] full-page leaf of plates. Bound in contemporary Spanish limp vellum with original leather ties intact; title and geometric decoration executed in contemporary manuscript to the spine panel. Text-block edges stained red. Title page printed in red and black within a typographical ornamental border. Illustrated with a full-page woodcut dedication to St. Antonio de Padua, repeating woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and text arranged in two columns within single-line typographical borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"12\"\u003eThe structural and surface condition of the volume is \u003cstrong\u003eFINE\u003c\/strong\u003e. The contemporary vellum binding remains supple and securely attached. Internal defects are restricted to a minor loss at the lower fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper and a similar small corner loss on leaves 71-72, neither affecting the text matrix. The text block is crisp, bright, and free of typical colonial foxing or worming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"13\"\u003eProvenance: From the distinguished library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon, with his gilt-stamped morocco bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-path-to-node=\"14\"\u003eFranciscan Missiology, Texas Foundations, and Inquisition Censorship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"15\"\u003eThis work stands as the definitive contemporary biography of the venerable Franciscan missionary Father Antonio Margil de Jesús (1657–1726), a monumental figure in the spiritual and political expansion of New Spain. Compiled by his fellow Franciscan and travel companion, Father Isidro Félix de Espinosa, the narrative draws directly upon first-hand observations made during their joint expedition into the internal provinces between 1716 and 1719. Chapters 22 through 24 provide crucial primary accounts of the permanent re-establishment of Spanish authority in East Texas, documenting the founding of missions among the Hasinai Caddo, including Nuestra Señora de los Dolores and San Miguel de los Adaes, which served as strategic buffers against French encroachment from Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"16\"\u003eThis specific copy represents a highly significant, \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"16\" data-index-in-node=\"52\"\u003euncensored survival\u003c\/b\u003e of the first edition. Shortly after publication by Joseph Bernardo de Hogal in 1737, the Holy Office of the Inquisition objected to passage variants on pages 426 and 427, which invoked the name and imagery of the apocalyptic angel Uriel—a figure external to the canonical Roman Catholic tradition. Consequently, the vast majority of extant copies in commerce and institutional holdings feature these pages heavily defaced, excised, or systematically blacked out by contemporary ink. In this copy, the text remains entirely unmarred and readable in its original, unaltered state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-path-to-node=\"17\"\u003eBibliographic Status, Census, and Scarcity\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"18\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eEl Peregrino Septentrional Atlante\u003c\/i\u003e is a recognized keystone of borderlands bibliography. It is designated as a foundational text across all standard references of Western Americana, cited as \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"191\"\u003eFifty Texas Rarities No. 5\u003c\/b\u003e; Thomas W. Streeter's \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"240\"\u003eBibliography of Texas\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"263\"\u003eJenkins, Basic Texas Books 59A\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"295\"\u003eWagner, Spanish Southwest 102\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"326\"\u003eHowes E-184\u003c\/b\u003e; and \u003cb data-path-to-node=\"18\" data-index-in-node=\"343\"\u003eGraff 1260\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"19\"\u003eWhile the title is represented in major research institutions focusing on the Spanish borderlands, copies preserving the contemporary vellum infrastructure, original ties, and an un-inked state of the censored sheets are exceptionally scarce. This duplicate survival constitutes a critical preservation of eighteenth-century Mexican typography and early colonial Texas history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"20\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"20\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eA MAGNIFICENT, STRUCTURALLY COMPLETE FIRST EDITION COPY IN ITS CONTEMPORARY VELLUM BINDING, PRESERVING THE CENSOR-PRONE TEXT UNTOUCHED, FORMING A REQUISITE ARTIFACT FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN COLONIAL MEXICANA AND NORTH AMERICAN MISSIONARY HISTORY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"20\"\u003e# 001251\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46128269557909,"sku":"","price":16000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0459\/2589\/2245\/files\/el_peregrino_01_20250619.jpg?v=1750439351","url":"https:\/\/wallaceandclark.com\/products\/1737-espinosa-peregrino-septentrional-atlante-texas-uncensored","provider":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}