Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CALIFORNIA.) Rodriguez de San Miguel, Juan. Group of pamphlets on the Pious Fund of the Californias. 3 pamphlets bound in 2. 8vo, stitched or disbound; no notable condition issues. Mexico, 1845

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This fund was founded to support missions in 1697, and was seized by the Mexican government in 1842, resulting in tensions when the United States gained control of California in 1848. Includes: Rectificacion de Graves Equivocaciones en que Inciden los Senores Terceros Poseedores de bienes del fondo piadoso de Californias. 16 pages, stitched Documentos Relativos al Piadoso Fondo de Misiones . . . de la Antigua y Nueva California. 60 pages; Palau 274956 bound with: Segundo Cuaderno de Interesantes Documentos relativos a los Bienes del Fondo Piadoso de Misiones. 32 pages. Together, Sabin 72543.