Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(TEXAS.) Fonseca, Juan. Decree encouraging Mexican citizens to emigrate to Texas. Letterpress broadside, 17 x 12 1/2 inches, signed in type as governor of the state of Mexico; slight browning along folds; uncut. Toluca, 7 February 1834

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Prints the important 4 February decree of Vice-President Valentin Gomez Farías. "Reciting the desire of the government to aid its citizens who have suffered from the disordered state of the country and offering to assist them to take up government lands in the state of Coahuila and Texas"--Streeter, Texas 812 (describing the first edition). This printing not in OCLC.