This is a 1965 edition of the book "Red Book Pedro Menendez De Aviles Founder of Florida" by Bartolome Barrientos, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. Rich in historical content, it provides a detailed account of the establishment of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville,1965. Included is a facsimile copy of the original 1567 edition as well as an English translation. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL 1965. [xxviii] 313 pp. [161 pp. English Translation; 152 pp. Facsimile of sole printed edition of the original Spanish work]. Red vinyl cover with gilt coat-of-arms of Pedro Menendez de Aviles with gilt title imprint on spine. Frontispiece portrait; route maps on end papers and pastedowns. The first English translation of the 1567 biography of Pedro Melendez de Aviles by Bartolome Barrientos. Sponsored by The Saint Augustine Foundation during the 1565-1965 Quadricentennial of Saint Augustine's founding. Special copy, contains cc copy of letter from University of Florida press to Mr. Kerrigan, responding to his request for two copies. According to the letter, the numbered copies were gone but the University had a few extra unnumbered copies from the printer. The writer explained "I trust you will not be offended if we fulfill your request for copies to yourself and your son from this illicit supply. Perhaps you can console yourself with the thought that your copies are even rarer than those from the numbered 1,000." (This copy belonged to the son Michael from California rather than Anthony in Spain.) ? Written by Bartolome Barrientos ? Translated by Anthony Kerrigan ? Published in 1965 ? Details the founding of Florida ? Ideal for history enthusiasts About the author: Anthony Kerrigan, a poet and translator of works by Spanish and Latin American writers, translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, including "Ficciones," "A Personal Anthology," "Poems" and "Irish Strategies," and by Miguel de Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, including "Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno." He won a National Book Award for his 1973 translation of Unamuno's "Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations." Other notable translations include Pablo Neruda's "Selected Poems," Camilo Jose Cela's "Family of Pascual Duarte" and "The Revolt of the Masses," by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Mr. Kerrigan's also had published three collections of his own poetry: "Lear in the Tropic of Paris" (1952), "Espousal in August" (1968) and "At the Front Door of the Atlantic" (1969). Kerrigan was born in Winchester, Massachusetts but lived in Cuba until he was 12. In 1988, the National Endowment for the Arts gave him an unsolicited grant for lifetime contributions to American letters. He also served as a guest scholar at the University of Notre Dame and at Indiana University. Mr. Kerrigan passed away in 1991, survived by a wife and five children, including Michael, of Los Angeles. This book descended in the Michael Kerrigan line where we obtained it from a Los Angeles estate sale.