(MEXICO) Copias exactas palabra por palabra de todas las car

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(MEXICO.) Copias exactas, palabra por palabra, de todas las cartas del Sor. Dn. Juan de la Granja al Sor. Dn. Wm. Geo. Stewart. 206 printed pages. 8vo, stitched; light soiling to outer pages, two short tape repairs, minor wear. New York, 1852

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Before the Mexican-American War, Juan de la Granja (1785-1853) was the Mexican consul in New York, and the American William George Stewart was his vice-consul. They collaborated together on industrial projects in Mexico, most notably a telegraph line over which Granja secured control in 1849. Stewart took him to court in Mexico and won control after Granja's death. This volume contains their business correspondence from 1846 to 1851, most in Spanish but some in English. Stewart was a printer by trade, and it seems likely that he printed this correspondence to further his legal case in Mexico. No other examples traced--at auction, in OCLC, or elsewhere.