Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WEST--TEXAS.) José Justo Corro. Mexican decree pledging to free Santa Anna, but disavowing any promises made by him while a prisoner. Letterpress broadside, 12¼ x 8½ inches, signed in type by Corro as president, Valentín Canalizo as governor of the State of Mexico, and by Joaquin Noriega as secretary; horizontal fold, stitch holes, slight wear and mount remnants at all four corners; modern private library bookplate on verso. Toluca, 31 May 1836

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"Pledging every effort to secure the liberty of Santa Anna, but declaring in section 3 any promises he may make while a prisoner not binding on the Government"--Streeter, Texas 879 (re 20 May first edition). The captured Santa Anna had signed the Treaty of Velasco on 14 May, promising that the Mexican army would withdraw to south of the Rio Grande. This is a local printing of the original decree by President José Justo Corro.