The Martyr The Story of a Secret Jew and the Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 373. Includes a few black & white illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in magenta cloth with white and gilt lettering stamped on spine and red sun illustration inlaid on cover. Clean and tight. In the dust jacket, with original price of $7.95. intact on front flap. Front cover torn at top; light general wear. Near Fine / Good+. Item #7981
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva was a Portuguese-born Spanish noble, from a line of conversos, or Jewish converts to Catholicism, who was awarded a huge chunk of land in New Spain. Among other attributes, he was a slave-trader and is recorded as the first Spanish subject to enter what is now Texas from Mexico, across the lower Rio Grande. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival jacket.
Price: $40.00