TEXAS
TEXAS
“Tell
Us About MEXICO,
Where
MAXIMILIAN
Now Lives”
De Bussierre, Marie Théodore Renouard, vicomte de. L'empire mexicain histoire des toltèques des chichimeques des aztèques et de la conquete espagnole. Paris: Henri Plon, 1863. Small 8vo. [2] ff., 427 pp.
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the interior image for an enlargement.
The latter part of the book offers a very brief recounting of Javier Mina,
the
War
for Texas independence, and the U.S. intervention in
the 1840s and consequent loss of California, New Mexico, etc. to the U.S.
Provenance: From the collection of Alberto Pareño, with his initials at the base of the spine.
• Sabin 9561; Palau 37698; Bernal 4295. 20th-century red cloth, with original green printed wrappers bound in. Occasional light foxing. (21371)
A“TEXIAN” Survivor's Narrative — 13 Maps & Plates
Green, Thomas Jefferson. Journal of the Texian expedition against Mier; subsequent imprisonment of the author; his sufferings, and final escape from the castle of Perote. With reflections upon the present political and probable future relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., 487, [1] pp.; 10 plts., 2 maps (1 fold.).
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is illustrated with a total of 13 steel-engraved plates, including a frontispiece and two maps, most taken from drawings done by Charles McLaughlin, “a fellow prisoner.”
• Howes G371; Sabin 28562; Streeter, Texas, 1581. Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; worn and stained, spine head reinforced with dark cloth tape extending onto boards. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, call number on front endpapers, rubber- and pressure-stamps on title-page. Plates variously lightly waterstained; folding map of Rio Alcantra with outer half torn away and edge tattered. Pages with minor age-toning and occasional stains. (26394)
Over
400
SMALL-PRINT Pages
[Lester, Charles Edwards]. The life of Sam Houston. (The only authentic memoir of him ever published). New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 402, [6 (adv.)] pp.; 10 plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Howes L271. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, worn and spotted; spine gilt-stamped with title and American eagle, much faded, head pulled. A very few pencil marks and some pages dog-eared; occasional spots of foxing.
Opening the Port of
Matamoros Mexico. Laws, statues, etc. 16 July 1836. Broadside. Begins, “Durante la guerra con los sublevados de Tejas, se permitará la introducción de viveres del extrangero por el puerto de Matamoros.” México: no publisher/printer, 1836. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
This is a states' edition, promulgated by José Gómez de la Cortina, Governor of the Federal District.
• Streeter, Texas, 880. Very good condition. Lacking the integral blank leaf. (24618)
Abolishing Slavery & Punishing Texas Rebels Mexico. Laws, statutes, etc. 5 April 1837. Broadside. Begins, “Queda abolida sin excepcion alguna la esclavidud en toda la república.” Mexico: no publisher/printer, 1837. Folio (30.9 cm; 12.125"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. A states' edition issued in Puebla.
• Streeter, Texas, 926.1. Very Good copy, with small holes in inner margin, and one small brown stain in lower margin. (24621)
New Mexico (& Texas?!) Become
“Departments” Mexico. Laws, statutes, etc. 30 June 1838. Broadside, begins: El Gral. de Division Felipe Codallos ... El Congreso general, cumpliendo con lo prevenido en los articulos 1o. y 2o. de la sexta ley constitucional, divide el territorio de la Republica en veinticuartro Departamentos.... Puebla: Imprenta del gobierno, 1838. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5). 1 p.
• Lacking the integral blank; left margin a little irregular. (25478)
BIG Fraud (Texas Size)!
Taylor, W. Thomas. Texfake:
An account of the theft and forgery of early Texas printed documents. Austin:
W. Thomas Taylor, 1991. 8vo. xix, [1 (blank)], 158 pp., 39 plts.
• New; publisher's quarter cloth with paper sides with a reproduction of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Convention Constitution Membership United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association, held at Washington, D. C., September 4th and 5th, 1878, with the constitution and by-laws as amended thereat, and list of members of the association. Washington: Pr. by J. F. Sheiry, 1878. 16mo. 175 pp.
Mr.
Towers of Texas, for example, noted that he came from “Ft. Worth, the
largest city of its size in the United States.”
• Original printed wrappers, chipped at spine and edges and corners without loss of printing; darkened. A shallow chip or two to title and following page, shallow dog-earing and faint waterstaining to initial leaves including title-page; otherwise, clean and free of chips or tears. (21257)
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