[TEXAS]. Report of the Commissioner of the Court of Claims. Printed by order of the legislature of the State of Texas. Austin: John Marshall & Co., 1857.
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[TEXAS]. Report of the Commissioner of the Court of Claims. Printed by order of the legislature of the State of Texas. Austin: John Marshall & Co., 1857.
8vo (214 x 137 mm). 22pp. (Some browning or spotting.) Folded as issued, partially uncut, unsewn with stab-holes for sewing. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 528.
FIRST EDITION. Including James C. Wilson's notice of retirement, 1 June, 1857. "In retiring from this Office, I beg leave to present to you, and through ou to the Legislature, the following Report. No written statement of all that has been done in the office can possibly be made" (p.3). Also including James O. Illingsworth's report of certificates issued: "It will require at least four competent courts in this office during the session of Legislature...to perform the duties" (p.22). RARE EARLY TEXAS IMPRINT: we trace no other copies of this imprint at auction in at least 50 years .Winkler 902.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
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