Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 311

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(WEST--TEXAS.) Group of Mexican newspapers discussing Texas during the era of the Republic. 8 items, each 4 pages, various sizes; generally minor to moderate wear, some key passages marked in colored pencil. Mexico, 1836-1845
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"Diario del Gobierno de la republica Mexicana." 4 pages, 16½ x 12¼ inches. One article (marked in red pencil) dismisses "los presuntuosos colonos" and their "célebre república desierta" (presumptuous colonists and their celebrated desert republic). 30 November 1836.

"Gaceta del Gobierno de Jalisco." 4 pages, 12½ x 8½ inches; modern bookplate on final page. The several articles on Texas conclude with the hope that General Arista will go to Texas to "lavará la mancha que justa ó gratuitamente cayó sobre su reputación" (wash away the stain that fell on his reputation). Guadalajara, 8 March 1837.

"El Ancla: Seminario de Matamoros." 4 pages, 13 x 8½ inches; repair in lower margin, modern bookplate on final page. Includes messages from President Arista regarding his hopes for a reconquest of "los tejanos nuestros irreconciliables enemigos" (the Texans, our irreconcilable enemies." 7 December 1840.

"Diario del Gobierno de la republica Mexicana." 4 pages, 21 x 14¼ inches. Includes a report from the military commander of Laredo, informing that spies have returned from Texas and that there are no preparations of any force "of the usurpers of that country," and discusses rumors of Sam Houston. The French-British-American alliance in support of Texas is discussed at length in another report dated from New York13 July 1843.

"El Meteoro de Sinaloa." 4 pages, 12½ x 8½ inches. An article on the last page warns of the need to protect California from the fate which befell Texas. Mazatlan, 6 January 1845.

"El Astro de la Libertad." 4 pages, 13 x 8¾ inches. Closes with an article observing that "por consecuencia de la agregación de Téjas a los Estados-Unidos en que por fin se ha estimado como inevitable la guerra con esta nación" (as a result of the addition of Texas to the United States, a war with this nation has finally been deemed inevitable). San Juan Bautista, 22 June 1845.

"El Centinela." 4 pages, 18¼ x 13 inches; portion clipped from inner margin, 5-inch repair to second leaf. The first leaf is the newspaper, and the second leaf is a sheet with 18 unfolded pages from an 18mo edition of Eugene Sue's novel titled "Los Misterios de Paris"--an unusual bibliographical curiosity. An article on the second page discusses "the ominous code of 1836, the well-known cause of all the evils that afflicted the republic." The first page discusses fighting with Indians in Teocuitlapa. Puebla, 13 November 1845.

"La Enseña de la Libertad." 4 pages, 12½ x 9¼ inches. The lead article attacks revolutionaries who discredit negotiations with Texas. Puebla, 16 December 1845.


With--a related pamphlet, "Otro Motin Militar." 4 printed pages, 12½ x 9 inches, on one folding sheet; minimal wear. A defense of Mexican soldiers under Filisola who had refused to march on Texas due to inadequate supplies and provisions. None in OCLC. San Luis Potosí: Ventura Carrillo, 1845.

and--an 1835 newspaper on Indians in the borderlands: "Telégrafo: Periódico Oficial del Gobierno de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos." 4 pages, 12 x 8¼ inches. Includes a report from Chihuahua: "Comunicación . . . de operaciones contra los indios bárbaros, y nueva solicitud del general de ellos pidiendo paces," concerning negotiations with Apaches in Loma Blanca, Chihuahua, just south of El Paso. 9 February 1835.