[Americana] [Texas] Niles, John M., and L.T. Pease: History of South America and Mexico...To Which is Annexed, a Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War
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Sep 10, 2024
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[Americana] [Texas] Niles, John M., and L.T. Pease. History of South America and Mexico...To Which is Annexed, a Geographical and Historical View of Texas, with a Detailed Account of the Texian Revolution and War
Hartford: H. Huntington, Jun., 1837. Two volumes in one. 8vo. 370; 230 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, two engraved portrait plates, and two large hand-colored folding maps, of Mexico, Texas, and South America. Full contemporary tree calf; stamped in gilt, gouges along edges of front and rear boards, joints and extremities rubbed, spine slightly dry; marbled edges; contemporary ownership signature at top of title-page and engraved title-page; scattered foxing to text; repaired tear in first map. Howes N-156; Sabin 55319
An important and early account, and map, of Texas as a Republic.
This work contains an "excellent contemporary account of the Texas Revolution and its beginnings...The Account includes reprintings of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Burleson's report on the taking of Bexar in December, 1835, and the Travis letter of February 24, 1836, and several other reports and documents. One of these is a reprinting (p. 329-335), which I do not recollect having seen elsewhere, of the report of Benjamin H. Holland, Captain of the 2d Company of Artillery, on the Fannin Massacre...I am inclined to think the value of this contemporary account of the Texas Revolution, compiled by the father of one of the participants...has been overlooked" (Streeter, Texas 1285A).
The hand-colored map of Mexico and Texas shows the Republic as separate, and with the internal provinces of Mexico.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
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