El Peregrino Septentrional Atlante: Delineado en la Vida del Venerable Padre F. Antonio Margil de Jesus, ...

(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. 8vo - 8" x 5-7/8". Contemporary limp vellum with ties; title and decoration in manuscript to spine. Text-block edges tinted red. Plain endpapers with a small loss to lower fore edge corner of FFE; morocco bookplate of John Talbot Gernon to front pastedown. [38], 456, [4] pp., plus [1] leaf of plates; title printed in red and black within an ornamental border, woodcut dedication to St. Antonio de Padua, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, text in two columns within a single line border. A RARE, UNCENSORED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE "FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES;" pages 426-427 in most copies have been defaced by the Inquisition because of references to the apocalyptic angel Uriel; illustrated with a copperplate engraving of Father Margil and the Native Americans; internally fine with th