Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 1,125
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WEST--TEXAS.) José Justo Corro. Broadside ordering a national state of mourning in Mexico after Santa Anna's capture in Texas. Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 8½ inches, signed in type by Manuel Maria de la Vega y Rabago as Governor of Sinaloa; horizontal fold, dampstaining, small edge repairs; collector's bookplate on verso. In modern ¼ calf gilt folder. Culiacán, 17 June 1836
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The Sinaloa state printing of a 20 May decree by the president of Mexico. It announces the 21 April capture of General Santa Anna by the insurgents, and orders that until his release all Mexican flags must bear black crepe and hang at half-mast: "1. En la orden diaria del ejercito de las plazas y de todos los cuerpos, se asentará el periodo siguiente: 'En 21 de Abril de 1836 fue hecho prisionero el presidente de la Republica, general D. Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna, peleando por salvar la integridad del territorio nacional.' 2. Mientras dure en prision S.E., el presidente de la Republica, se pondrá á las banderas y á los guiones de los cuerpos del ejercito, un lazo de crespon negro." The opening lines read "Gobierno del departamento de Sinaloa. Manuel Maria de la Vega y Rabago . . . sabed: que por el ministerio de guerra se me ha comunicado el decreto que sigue." An early Culiacán imprint; we find none before 1833. None of this printing traced at auction or in OCLC; not in Streeter's Texas.