Heading:
Author: Priestley, Herbert Ingram, translator & editor
Title: The Luna Papers: Documents Relating to the Expedition of Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano for the Conquest of La Florida in 1559-1561
Place Published: Deland, FL
Publisher:The Florida State Historical Society
Date Published: 1928
Description:

2 volumes. xxiii, [1], 271, [1]; xv, [1], 383, [1] pp. Title pages printed in red & black. Frontispiece portrait of Don Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain; facsimile map; 6 facsimiles of manuscript pages. 25x16 cm (9¾x6¼"), half cloth & boards, paper cover & spine labels. No. 335 of 360 copies printed by the Yale University Press at the printing office of E.L. Hildreth & Co., typography by Carl Purington Rollins.

The first publication of these documents, describing the Spanish expedition into West Florida led by Don Tristan de Luna and supervised by Don Luis de Velasco, the Viceroy of New Spain. Luna's expedition ultimately failed, but it foreshadowed future Spanish colonization of Florida. The documents include much correspondence between Luna and Velasco, descriptions of the expedition, and the charges and countercharges over who was to blame for its failure. Number eight in the publications of the Florida State Historical Society. Howes P604.

Fine condition, contents largely unopened.