The Spanish Conquest Of New Mexico

William Watts Hart Davis

Doylestown, Pa., 1869

Rebound in modern cloth. Hardcover. Fine binding and cover. xv, [17]-438 pages, frontispiece, 24 cm.  Important note: Lacks rear map.  Scattered foxing throughout. Davis served in posts in New Mexico Territory (including present-day Arizona) from 1853 to 1857, and as acting governor. "His narrative of the prolonged hostilities between the Spaniards and the Indians, the religious rites, method of warfare, and peculiar ceremonies of the latter, is fresh, vigorous, and highly interesting" - Field 406. Sabin 18905; Streeter sale, II:467. Published by subscription.