First Expedition of Vargas into New Mexico, 1692 (Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940 Volume X)

Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Odd volume. 319pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the backstrip and front board. Covers cocked. Front hinge soft. No dust jacket. The reconquest of New Mexico by Spain took place in the last decade of the seventeenth century, under the leadership of Don Diego de Vargas. The documents contained in this volume form the first complete published account of the first phase of the reconquest of New Mexico, a brief but dramatic chapter in the history of the American frontier.