[Prospectus for:] Rockwell's Spanish and Mexican Law. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California and New Mexico... [caption title]

[New York: John S. Voorhies, 1852. Very good.. 2pp., printed in two columns, on rectos only, of a single folded sheet of thin blue paper. Minor wear and creasing. A scarce prospectus for John A. Rockwell's A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate, in force in California and New Mexico, and in the Territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties when annexed to the United States (1851). The prospectus reprints letters of recommendation from American and Spanish public figures, such as President Millard Fillmore, Chief Justice Roger Taney, Supreme Court Justice John McLean, California Senator William Gwin, Don Felipe Molina of Cosa Rica, Don Juan y de Osma, Charge d’Affaires of Peru, and others, as well as newspaper reviews of the work. OCLC reports about a dozen institutional copies.