(WEST TEXAS) Valentín Canalizo Emotional message on the cap

Sale 2615 - Lot 295

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(WEST--TEXAS.) Valentín Canalizo. Emotional message on the capture of General Santa Anna in Texas. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2, signed in type as Governor of the State of Mexico; losses at all 4 corners just touching text with paper repairs; modern private library bookplate on verso. Toluca, 24 May 1836

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The Governor of Mexico responds to the news of General Santa-Anna's capture in Texas, asking that the people take up arms and do not relinquish them until the injustice is avenged. The opening lines are "El Gobernador del Departamento de México: á sus habitantes. Conciudadanos y amigos! Una de las bicisitudes tan comunes en la guerra á hecho que el digno Presidente de la República General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna se encuentre prisionero entre los estrangeros colonos de Tejas." 2 examples in OCLC, and none traced at auction.