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California. Colonial History & Mission Administration
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A fine group of ten broadsides, manuscript documents and pamphlets illustrative of California history ending with the Mexican War, 1582-1847, as follows:
Edwin H. Carpenter. A Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside from the Collection of Emilio Valtón. Los Angeles: [Plantin Press for] Dalton's Book Shop, 1965. Folio, title printed in red and black with large armorial device, the broadside inserted in a pocket, is a "Carta de pago"printed in Gothic type on both sides by Pedro Ocharte in Mexico City in August 1582, 21 lines each, with manuscript accomplishment on each side. Publisher's creme quarter cloth and gray boards, pink dust jacket, in a slipcase with printed paper label on spine.
Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursua. Letter signed ("Ant[oni]o Bucareli y Ursua"), in Spanish, 2 1/2 pages (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.; 300 x 205 mm), Mexico City, 3 July 1776, to the Provincial of the San Diego Mission; formerly folded, a few small stains in lower margin of second leaf. Half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. The Viceroy asks the Mission to send an accounting of the numbers of priests who arrive and depart, the alms which they collect, the names of convents and monasteries under their care, all by the king's order. The mission had, in November of the prior year, been overrun by natives, the buildings destroyed and some priests killed. Fray Serra was en route from Monterey to San Diego to help with the rebuilding.
Estado de las Missiones de la N[uev]a California sacado de las informas de sus Misioneros en fino de Diciembre de 1809. Manuscript document, in Spanish, 1 1/2 pages (12 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.; 310 x 425 mm), no place, 1809; formerly folded, a few tiny tears in upper margin. Red half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine, English translation laid in. Statistical record of all the missions from San Diego to San Francisco, giving their locations, date of foundation, and who presides over them, providing numbers of baptisms, marriages, burials, population, cattle, wool, skins, other work animals, and harvests.
Fray Mariano Payeras. Estado de las Missiones de la Alta California sacado de las informas de sus Misiones en fin de Diciembre de 1819. Manuscript document with secretarial signature, in Spanish, 1 page (17 x 12 3/8 in.; 432 x 315 mm), no place [the original prepared at Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Lompoc, California], 1819. A census, similar to the preceding.
Luis Antonio Arguello. Tratado de Negociacion con D[o]n Cirilo Glebnicoff [Khiril Klebnikov], autorizado por la Compania Rusa de N. Arcangel, para hacer una contrada de pesca de Nutrias Marinas en esta costa .... Manuscript document signed ("Luis Antonio Arguello"), 2 1/2 pages (12 x 8 1/4 in.; 305 x 210 mm), Presidio de Monterrey, 1 December 1823; formerly folded, small fold tear in top margin. Creme half-cloth clamshell box, gilt-stamped title label on spine, English translation laid in. The Governor of California (1784-1830), recognizing that foreign ships were taking otters without compensation, tried to raise money to support his troops by licensing otter fishing off the coast to a Russian fleet. This is a certified, signed copy of the first of several contracts established with Klebnikov. [See A. Ogden, The California Sea Otter Trade, 1784–1848 (1941), pp. 95–99].
Estado que manifiesta la fuerza que deben tener las seis compañias que se consideran necesarias para la guarnicion de los territorios de la alta y baja California, con espresion de los haberes y gratificaciones que deberán disfrutar. Printed broadside (16 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.; 425 x 310 mm), Mexico City, 3 May 1828, signed in print and with a paraph "F. Castro"; light marginal soiling and creasing. Half-morocco folding-case, gilt-stamped title on spine. Graaf 2271. The organization of six companies of cavalry in Upper and Lower California, this broadside shows the number of troops and officers which were needed for posts in California, listing the various posts including San Francisco, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Loreto. The number of soldiers called for at each is given, as well as physicians and surgeons, inspectors. The annual budgets for the forces are also provided.
José Maria Estudillo. Estado que manifiesta el numero de las Poblaciones de Yndios congregados en las Misiones que administran los Religiosos del Colegio Apo[stoli]co de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando de Mexico .... Manuscript document with autograph "Notas" and signature ("José Maria Estudillo"), 1 1/2 pages (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.; 412 x 336 mm), San Diego, 7 June 1827; formerly folded, a few tiny edge tears. Half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine, printed English translation laid in. Estudillo (d. 1830) was one of the earliest lay settlers of San Diego and commandant of the Praesidio there. This is a fascinating census of the native Americans settled in the region, arranged according to age, gender, marital status. Of special interest are the notes, apparently in his hand, that provide important details on the local industries, agriculture, vineyards, olive groves, and the cultivation of hemp.
Narciso Duran. Ynforme de las confesiones y comuniones en cumplimiento da la Yglesia y viaticos que han administrado à los Neofitos de la California en el año de 1831 sacado de las certificaciones de los R.R.P.P. Ministros. Manuscript document, with secretarial signature, 1 page (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.; 310 x 215 mm), no place [originally from Santa Barbara], 1831; small tear in upper margin. Blue half-morocco folding clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. Statistics on communions and confessions in missions of upper California in the year 1831, by the superior of the upper missions and vice prefect.
Pious Fund. Ley y reglamento aprobado de la junta directiva y económica del fondo piadoso de Californias. Mexico: Galvan for Mariano Arevalo, 1833. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 205 x 130 mm), plain wrappers, blue half-morocco slipcase. First edition, "one of the earlier official documents relating to the Pious Fund of the Californias" (Cowan I, p. 179). This implements the decree of 25 May 1832 ordering that properties belonging to the Pious Fund be rented and the proceeds deposited for the sole benefit of California. Sabin 40897; Streeter sale 2466
Contestaciones habidas entre el supremo gobierno mexicano, el General en Gefe del Ejercito Americano, y el Comisionado de los Estados-Unidos. Mexico: Vicente Garcia Torres, 1847. 8vo, original printed wrappers; tear in left margin. Red half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. Sabin 48397. The text of the negotiations opened by General Winfield Scott in August 1847 for an armistice, and the text of the subsequent peace negotiations.
Edwin H. Carpenter. A Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside from the Collection of Emilio Valtón. Los Angeles: [Plantin Press for] Dalton's Book Shop, 1965. Folio, title printed in red and black with large armorial device, the broadside inserted in a pocket, is a "Carta de pago"printed in Gothic type on both sides by Pedro Ocharte in Mexico City in August 1582, 21 lines each, with manuscript accomplishment on each side. Publisher's creme quarter cloth and gray boards, pink dust jacket, in a slipcase with printed paper label on spine.
Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursua. Letter signed ("Ant[oni]o Bucareli y Ursua"), in Spanish, 2 1/2 pages (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.; 300 x 205 mm), Mexico City, 3 July 1776, to the Provincial of the San Diego Mission; formerly folded, a few small stains in lower margin of second leaf. Half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. The Viceroy asks the Mission to send an accounting of the numbers of priests who arrive and depart, the alms which they collect, the names of convents and monasteries under their care, all by the king's order. The mission had, in November of the prior year, been overrun by natives, the buildings destroyed and some priests killed. Fray Serra was en route from Monterey to San Diego to help with the rebuilding.
Estado de las Missiones de la N[uev]a California sacado de las informas de sus Misioneros en fino de Diciembre de 1809. Manuscript document, in Spanish, 1 1/2 pages (12 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.; 310 x 425 mm), no place, 1809; formerly folded, a few tiny tears in upper margin. Red half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine, English translation laid in. Statistical record of all the missions from San Diego to San Francisco, giving their locations, date of foundation, and who presides over them, providing numbers of baptisms, marriages, burials, population, cattle, wool, skins, other work animals, and harvests.
Fray Mariano Payeras. Estado de las Missiones de la Alta California sacado de las informas de sus Misiones en fin de Diciembre de 1819. Manuscript document with secretarial signature, in Spanish, 1 page (17 x 12 3/8 in.; 432 x 315 mm), no place [the original prepared at Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Lompoc, California], 1819. A census, similar to the preceding.
Luis Antonio Arguello. Tratado de Negociacion con D[o]n Cirilo Glebnicoff [Khiril Klebnikov], autorizado por la Compania Rusa de N. Arcangel, para hacer una contrada de pesca de Nutrias Marinas en esta costa .... Manuscript document signed ("Luis Antonio Arguello"), 2 1/2 pages (12 x 8 1/4 in.; 305 x 210 mm), Presidio de Monterrey, 1 December 1823; formerly folded, small fold tear in top margin. Creme half-cloth clamshell box, gilt-stamped title label on spine, English translation laid in. The Governor of California (1784-1830), recognizing that foreign ships were taking otters without compensation, tried to raise money to support his troops by licensing otter fishing off the coast to a Russian fleet. This is a certified, signed copy of the first of several contracts established with Klebnikov. [See A. Ogden, The California Sea Otter Trade, 1784–1848 (1941), pp. 95–99].
Estado que manifiesta la fuerza que deben tener las seis compañias que se consideran necesarias para la guarnicion de los territorios de la alta y baja California, con espresion de los haberes y gratificaciones que deberán disfrutar. Printed broadside (16 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.; 425 x 310 mm), Mexico City, 3 May 1828, signed in print and with a paraph "F. Castro"; light marginal soiling and creasing. Half-morocco folding-case, gilt-stamped title on spine. Graaf 2271. The organization of six companies of cavalry in Upper and Lower California, this broadside shows the number of troops and officers which were needed for posts in California, listing the various posts including San Francisco, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Loreto. The number of soldiers called for at each is given, as well as physicians and surgeons, inspectors. The annual budgets for the forces are also provided.
José Maria Estudillo. Estado que manifiesta el numero de las Poblaciones de Yndios congregados en las Misiones que administran los Religiosos del Colegio Apo[stoli]co de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando de Mexico .... Manuscript document with autograph "Notas" and signature ("José Maria Estudillo"), 1 1/2 pages (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.; 412 x 336 mm), San Diego, 7 June 1827; formerly folded, a few tiny edge tears. Half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine, printed English translation laid in. Estudillo (d. 1830) was one of the earliest lay settlers of San Diego and commandant of the Praesidio there. This is a fascinating census of the native Americans settled in the region, arranged according to age, gender, marital status. Of special interest are the notes, apparently in his hand, that provide important details on the local industries, agriculture, vineyards, olive groves, and the cultivation of hemp.
Narciso Duran. Ynforme de las confesiones y comuniones en cumplimiento da la Yglesia y viaticos que han administrado à los Neofitos de la California en el año de 1831 sacado de las certificaciones de los R.R.P.P. Ministros. Manuscript document, with secretarial signature, 1 page (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.; 310 x 215 mm), no place [originally from Santa Barbara], 1831; small tear in upper margin. Blue half-morocco folding clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. Statistics on communions and confessions in missions of upper California in the year 1831, by the superior of the upper missions and vice prefect.
Pious Fund. Ley y reglamento aprobado de la junta directiva y económica del fondo piadoso de Californias. Mexico: Galvan for Mariano Arevalo, 1833. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 205 x 130 mm), plain wrappers, blue half-morocco slipcase. First edition, "one of the earlier official documents relating to the Pious Fund of the Californias" (Cowan I, p. 179). This implements the decree of 25 May 1832 ordering that properties belonging to the Pious Fund be rented and the proceeds deposited for the sole benefit of California. Sabin 40897; Streeter sale 2466
Contestaciones habidas entre el supremo gobierno mexicano, el General en Gefe del Ejercito Americano, y el Comisionado de los Estados-Unidos. Mexico: Vicente Garcia Torres, 1847. 8vo, original printed wrappers; tear in left margin. Red half-morocco clamshell box, gilt-stamped title on spine. Sabin 48397. The text of the negotiations opened by General Winfield Scott in August 1847 for an armistice, and the text of the subsequent peace negotiations.