![[Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Attesting to the Loyalty of a Texas Cavalryman and Giving Him Permission to Return Home]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/877/1700877492.0.l.jpg)
[Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Attesting to the Loyalty of a Texas Cavalryman and Giving Him Permission to Return Home]
by [Civil War]. [Confederate Texas]
West Point, Ga: May 13, 1865. About very good.. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso. Old folds, minor loss at one crossfold, some archival reinforcements along fold lines, minor creasing and edge wear. A late Oath of Allegiance sworn by Private William M. Lewis, Company F of the 8th Confederate Texas Cavalry. William M. Lewis enlisted with the 8th Texas Cavalry, better known as Terry's Texas Rangers after its organizer, Benjamin Franklin Terry. Although originally intended to... Read More
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![Send for a Copy of the New Pension Law. Ho! for Texas! The Lone Star State! Where Lands Are Cheaper Than in Any Other State... [printed with]: Good News for All Soldiers and Sailors! Who Have Taken a Less Amount of Land as a Homestead Prior to June 22, 1874... [caption titles]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/469/693/1290693469.0.l.jpg)
Send for a Copy of the New Pension Law. Ho! for Texas! The Lone Star State! Where Lands Are Cheaper Than in Any Other State... [printed with]: Good News for All Soldiers and Sailors! Who Have Taken a Less Amount of Land as a Homestead Prior to June 22, 1874... [caption titles]
by [Texas]. Talbot, D.H.
Sioux City, 1878. Very good.. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of good, reliable men residing in Texas, we can inform you as near as any one can do that which you may expect to find upon a... Read More
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![[Ten Original Photographs of McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/602/1253602210.0.l.jpg)
[Ten Original Photographs of McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley]
by [Texas]. Eskildsen, John Peter
[McAllen, Tx, 1920. Very good.. Ten original photographs, each 5 x 7 inches. Light wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Contemporary pencil initials on versos. A rare group of ten original photographs by early 20th-century Texas photographer John Peter Esklidsen, who worked in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1910s and 1920s. The photographs present here were produced by the Eskildsen Studio of McAllen, Texas, and showcase the booming Valley during the 1920s. They show bountiful fields of... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, by Jose Maria Silva, Written to Don Jose Salgado in Mexico City, Reacting to the Recognition of Texas by the United States]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/841/195/1701195841.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, by Jose Maria Silva, Written to Don Jose Salgado in Mexico City, Reacting to the Recognition of Texas by the United States]
by [Texas Revolution]. Silva, Jose Maria
Los Reyes, Michoacan, Mexico: September 18, 1836. Very good.. [2]pp., plus manuscript docketing. Folded. Minor loss where previously sealed, otherwise light tanning and dust soiling. This letter between Mexican business colleagues attends firstly to financial matters, before turning to the state of affairs in Texas and cursing the United States for recognizing Texan independence: "Aunque muy por ensima estaba impuesto de la triste situacion en q[u]e hoy se ve n[ues]tra Republica, por la inconsecuencia del Gobierno de... Read More
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Jules A. Appler's Map of San Antonio, Tex., and Suburbs
by [Texas]. Appler, Jules A.
[San Antonio]: Jules A. Appler, 1940. Very good.. Large sheet map, 41.5 x 29.25 inches. Printed in black, green, and red. Old folds, some slight splitting at folds. Minor wear and soiling. A scarce, large-format map of San Antonio, Texas, capturing the city at the beginning of its World War II boom. This is perhaps the last work published by Jules A. Appler, a property developer who issued many of the city’s most popular maps and directories over... Read More
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![Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente...sabed: Que para Manifestar el Justo Sentimiento de la Nacion y del Ejercito por la Captura del Benemerito de la Patria Presidente General D. Anotnio Lopez de Santa Anna..." [caption title and first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/989/518/1405518989.0.l.jpg)
Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente...sabed: Que para Manifestar el Justo Sentimiento de la Nacion y del Ejercito por la Captura del Benemerito de la Patria Presidente General D. Anotnio Lopez de Santa Anna..." [caption title and first lines of text]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, including a couple of small chips at edges. Minor wrinkling and toning at left edge. Contemporary manuscript annotations and docketing. A rare and significant Mexican broadside decree, dated May 20, 1836, promulgated by the Secretary of War, José Maria Tornel, that declares a state of mourning following the capture of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. The interim president of Mexico,... Read More
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Manifiesto del Congreso General en el Presente Año
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City: Impreso por J.MF. de Lara, 1836. Very good.. 20pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. A substantial address by the president of the Mexican congress to the country's people in response to their losses in the Texas Revolution. Meaning to calm the country after the loss at San Jacinto and Santa-Anna’s subsequent capture, Congress assures the nation that the army shall lack for nothing and that victory is certain. The Congress further warns against... Read More
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Memoria Que el Secretario de Estado y del Despacho Universal de Justicia y Negocios Eclesiasticos..
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City, 1823. Good.. 24pp., plus seven leaves of tables (one folding). Small quarto. Modern, gilt morocco. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. Loss in the upper right corner of the title page and first text leaf, not affecting text, and a few scattered, short closed tears. Moderate, even tanning; slightly brittle. This scarce report provides an overview of judicial offices and ecclesiastical posts in the chaotic early years of Mexican independence, just after the reign of... Read More
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![Memorial de Justas Quejas, Dirigido al Excelentisimo Señor Presidente de la Republica Don Anastasio Bustamente, a Quien Se Suplica Lo Lea con Detenida Atencion y Calma [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/666/427/1483427666.0.l.jpg)
Memorial de Justas Quejas, Dirigido al Excelentisimo Señor Presidente de la Republica Don Anastasio Bustamente, a Quien Se Suplica Lo Lea con Detenida Atencion y Calma [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City: Imprenta de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1837. About very good.. 8pp. Small quarto. Single sheet, unstitched. Minor wear at edges. Light dampstaining and dust soiling. Light tanning. Scarce, anonymous appeal by Mexican citizens to President Anastacio Bustamante to halt the ongoing depredations of Texans and freemasons in the borderlands in 1837. After a lengthy opening section that laments the low state of the Mexican nation, government, and people, the writer demands that the president and government... Read More
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Aclaracion al Arancel General de Aduanas Maritimas y Fronterizas
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City, 1842. Very good.. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling at edges; light tanning. Scarce 1842 addendum to regulations concerning maritime customs and tariffs in Mexico. In the first of four articles contained here, Santa Anna declares that the ports of Galveston and Matagorda will be reopened to foreign trade when Texas returns to the federal union. The remaining articles clarify discrepancies between recent adjustments to tariff legislation and the original law passed... Read More
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![Gobierno de Durango. Antonio Maria de Esparza Individuo de la Junta Departamental de Durango, en Ejercicio del Poder Ejecutivo del Mismo, a Sus Habitantes, Sabed: Que por la Secretaria de hacienda Se Me Ha Dirigido el Decreto Siguiente... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/613/632/1630632613.0.l.jpg)
Gobierno de Durango. Antonio Maria de Esparza Individuo de la Junta Departamental de Durango, en Ejercicio del Poder Ejecutivo del Mismo, a Sus Habitantes, Sabed: Que por la Secretaria de hacienda Se Me Ha Dirigido el Decreto Siguiente... [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Victoria de Durango: January 19, 1836. Near fine.. Broadside, 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Very minor dust soiling. The Durango bando printing of this rare Mexican decree, in which the acting President orders that the Mexican government commandeer half the income of the states to prosecute the war against Texas -- "El Gobierno solo podrá disponer hasta de la mitad de las rentas de los Departamentos mientras subsista la guerra provocada por los colonos de Tejas...."... Read More
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![Ministerio de Hacienda... "Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna, General de Division, Benemerito de la Patria y Presidente Provisional de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed..." [caption title and part of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/592/145/1490145592.0.l.jpg)
Ministerio de Hacienda... "Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna, General de Division, Benemerito de la Patria y Presidente Provisional de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed..." [caption title and part of text]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City: April 7, 1843. Very good.. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Old vertical fold. Minor dampstain at top edge. Scarce broadsheet decree promulgated on April 7, 1843, in which Santa Anna orders an increase in import tariffs to fund military operations during a rebellion in the Yucatan and renewed hostilities against Texas. The first of seven articles printed here states that, "Durante la guerra que actualmente sostiene la nacion con los sublevados de Tejas y... Read More
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![Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana se ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed: Que el Congreso General Ha Decretado Lo Siguente. Art. 1o. "Para Recompensar la Acciones Distinguidas del Ejercito y de la Marina de Guerra, se Establece una Legion Militar..." [first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/427/1483427754.0.l.jpg)
Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana se ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed: Que el Congreso General Ha Decretado Lo Siguente. Art. 1o. "Para Recompensar la Acciones Distinguidas del Ejercito y de la Marina de Guerra, se Establece una Legion Militar..." [first lines of text]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]
Mexico City, 1836. Very good.. [8]pp. Small folio. Two sheets, pasted at interior gutter fold. Minor soiling. A very scarce Mexican decree that created a Legion of Honor for military veterans as a reward for acts of valor and good service during their enlistments, with a particular emphasis on honoring the soldiers of the Texas Revolution. The decree was passed on April 27, 1836, within a week of the Battle of San Jacinto, when news of the disaster... Read More
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![[Archive of Manuscript and Typed Letters, Documents, Maps, and Plans Retained by New York Attorney Thomas Hewitt, Pertaining to Various Texas Land Matters, Mainly in Galveston]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/092/991/1527991092.0.l.jpg)
[Archive of Manuscript and Typed Letters, Documents, Maps, and Plans Retained by New York Attorney Thomas Hewitt, Pertaining to Various Texas Land Matters, Mainly in Galveston]
by [Texas]. [Land Speculation]. [Hewitt, Thomas]
[Various locations in Texas, including Galveston, Houston, Brazoria, and others, 1894. Very good.. Eighty-five letters, documents, invoices, memoranda, and other correspondence, totaling about 110 pages, written on a variety of plain paper, letterhead, and pre-printed forms, plus two maps, a printed sketch with manuscript additions, and an architectural blueprint. Minor losses and insect damage to a handful of letters and portions of the maps, one map with heavy losses. The great majority of letters and documents in generally... Read More
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![[Collection of Photographs, Many Annotated, Retained in the Family of W. Grady Swift, Documenting His Time with the Department of Agriculture, Along with His Hunting and Ranching Activities in South Texas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/488/676/1467676488.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Photographs, Many Annotated, Retained in the Family of W. Grady Swift, Documenting His Time with the Department of Agriculture, Along with His Hunting and Ranching Activities in South Texas]
by [Texas Photographica]. Swift, W. Grady
[Various locations in Texas, including San Antonio, Laredo, and Raymondville, 1950. Very good.. Forty-six black-and-white photographs, from 3 x 2 inches to 8 x 10 inches, one tintype, and one printed certificate. Most photographs with personalized family annotations on verso. Moderate surface and edge wear to some pictures, a few creased or with minor chipping. Overall very nice condition. A small but informative collection of photographs from the family of W. Grady Swift (1904-1979), a long-time agent of... Read More
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![[Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/108/792/1675792108.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba]
by [Cuba]. [Theatre]
[Havana]: Moises V. Codina, 1908. Good plus.. Seven broadsides, each approximately 22 x 7.25 inches, plus one double bill, measuring about 22 x 15 inches. One broadside printed in red and black. Previously folded. Scattered , shallow tears from edges, not affecting text, with some tape repairs on blank versos. A group of eight playbills spanning eight consecutive days in July 1908 that advertise performances and events at the Gran Teatro Payret in Havana. The theater was built... Read More
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![Craddock's Opera House. Lambert & Richardson's Superb Dramatic Co. Silver Band and Orchestra [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/925/377/1398377925.0.l.jpg)
Craddock's Opera House. Lambert & Richardson's Superb Dramatic Co. Silver Band and Orchestra [caption title]
by [Texas]. [Theater]
Dallas: Carter & Gibson, 1883. Good plus.. Small silk broadside, 8.5 x 3.5 inches. Frayed at edges, cut from a fabric printing multiple advertisements. Minor soiling and foxing. Scarce silk handbill that advertises a performance of the play “Banker’s Daughter” on, April 6, 1883 at Craddock's Opera House in Dallas. Craddock opened the Opera House in the late 1870s on the second floor of his liquor store at the corner of Main and Austin. The theater proved quite... Read More
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![59th Congress, 2d Session. S.R. 95. Joint Resolution Relating to Proceeding to Set Aside Deeds Alleged to Have Been Made by Mexican Kickapoos [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/919/1581919813.0.l.jpg)
59th Congress, 2d Session. S.R. 95. Joint Resolution Relating to Proceeding to Set Aside Deeds Alleged to Have Been Made by Mexican Kickapoos [caption title]
by U.S. Congress. [Indian Land Theft]
Washington, D.C.: March 2, 1907. Very good plus.. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet, docketed in print on verso of second leaf. With House of Representatives stamp dated March 2, 1907, indicating referral to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Old folds. A U.S. Senate slip bill printing of a proposed Joint Resolution relating to recording testimony for claims made by Mexican Kickapoo Indians on lands in present-day Oklahoma that were promised to said Kickapoos by the Mexican government.... Read More
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![60th Congress, 1st Session. S. 4793. An Act Authorizing Settlers on Crow Reservation Lands in Montana to Mortgage Same for the Construction of Irrigation Systems Prior to Final Proof [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/797/919/1581919797.0.l.jpg)
60th Congress, 1st Session. S. 4793. An Act Authorizing Settlers on Crow Reservation Lands in Montana to Mortgage Same for the Construction of Irrigation Systems Prior to Final Proof [caption title]
by U.S. Congress. [Indian Land Theft]
Washington, D.C.: March 10, 1908. Very good.. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet, docketed in print on verso of second leaf. With House of Representatives stamp dated March 11, 1908, indicating referral to the Committee on Public Lands. Old folds, minor wear. A slip bill printing of a proposed 1908 "Act Authorizing Settlers on Crow Reservation Lands in Montana to Mortgage Same for the Construction of Irrigation Systems Prior to Final Proof." This act authorized that settlers who... Read More
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Exposicion Que Dirige al Soberano Congreso Nacional, el Gobierno del Departamento de Yucatan
by Tiburcio Lopez, José
Merida: Imprenta de Castillo y Compania, 1845. Good plus.. 40pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped, some wear and minor loss at corners. Light dampstaining at fore-edge; scattered, light foxing. Small, faint ink stamp on title page. A scarce appeal by the pro-Mexican faction in the Yucatan for the full reincorporation of the province into Mexico. The region had declared itself an independent republic in 1841 and rebuffed military attempts at reoccupation in 1842 and 1843. In exchange for... Read More
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![Real Orden. A los Directores Generales de Rentas Digo con Esta Fecha lo Sigueuiente -- Habiendo Dado Cuenta al Rey Nuestro Señor de una Carta del Intendente de la Habana... [caption title and first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/632/1630632626.0.l.jpg)
Real Orden. A los Directores Generales de Rentas Digo con Esta Fecha lo Sigueuiente -- Habiendo Dado Cuenta al Rey Nuestro Señor de una Carta del Intendente de la Habana... [caption title and first lines of text]
by [Cuba]. [Tobacco]
[Havana, 1818. Good.. Broadside, 11.75 x 8 inches. Heavily tanned. An apparently unrecorded Havana imprint, comprising a broadside authorization for increased funding to be extended to the superintendent of Havana so that he can maximize the potential of the island's tobacco plantations. This credit is matched by the superintendent’s promise to use the money, "con el preciso destino de comprar y remitir á España las mayores cantidades posibles de este género." The superintendent must also swear to be... Read More
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![Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Sonora. El Gobernador del Estado de Sonora a Todos Sus Habitantes Sabed: Que el Congreso del Mismo Estado, Ha Dectretado Lo Que Sigue... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/253/1490253715.0.l.jpg)
Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Sonora. El Gobernador del Estado de Sonora a Todos Sus Habitantes Sabed: Que el Congreso del Mismo Estado, Ha Dectretado Lo Que Sigue... [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Tobacco]
Arizpe: November 24, 1834. Very good.. [4]pp., on a small bifolium. Untrimmed. Minor soiling and toning. Scarce 1834 decree of the Sonoran state government concerning the regulation of tobacco cultivation and sale. The first two articles read that the state legislature, "Se declara estancado por ahora el Tabaco en el Estado, y por consiguente como una renta propria y exclusiva de él.... En consecuencia niguno podrá cultivar este fruto sin expresa licencia adquirida en los terminos que detallará... Read More
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Representacion Que el Exmo. Ayuntamiento de la H. Ciudad de Veracruz, Elevó al Soberano Congreso de la Republica Solicitando la Abolicion del Estanco del Tabaco..
by [Mexico]. [Tobacco]
Veracruz: Imprenta del Comercio, 1848. Very good.. 28pp. Original printed, blue wrappers. Faint dampstain at lower corner; minor wear and soiling. A rare appeal from the city of Veracruz to the Mexican national congress to abolish the country's tobacco monopoly once and for all in the wake of the Mexican-American War. The monopoly had its roots in Spanish colonial Mexico, when the monarchy introduced it to help replenish the bankrupt treasury after the Seven Years' War, and it... Read More
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Diario Historico del Ultimo Viaje Que Hizo M. de la Sale para Descrubrir el Desembocadero y Curso del Missicipi...Traducio al Espanol por el Coronel Jose Maria Tornel, Ministro de Mejico en los Estados Unidos
by [Tornel, Jose Maria]. Joutel, Henri
Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. Very good.. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel al Ciudadano Rafael Mangino." Minor wear and light scuffing to extremities. Substantial foxing throughout. First Spanish edition of Joutel's landmark Journal Historique de Dernier Voyage Que... Read More
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![White Caps Sight-Seeing Tours of Mexico [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/814/787/1385787814.0.l.jpg)
White Caps Sight-Seeing Tours of Mexico [cover title]
by [Mexico]. [Tourism]
[Mexico City, 1938. About very good.. 80pp. plus folding map. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. A few leaves creased, minor soiling to text. Tourism guide for Mexico, outlining specific tours. With extensive ads and illustrations. Five copies in OCLC.
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