At the rear of the volume are30 folding plates setting forth various dispositions and movements of infantry troops; clear, careful, verbal explanations of these precede them.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the CCPBE locateonly three copies worldwide (all in Spain).

Provenance:  Contemporary signature of “Velez” on title-page.

•  Not in Palau. On Doyle, see: DNB online.   Dark brown speckled calf, black gilt-lettered title-label (a little chipped) to gilt-ruled spine, marbled endpapers; binding lightly rubbed. Age-toning and general light soiling, occasionally a dog-ear or a spot, all plates clean, well-attached, and whole at folds. A very sound, very good copy. (36362)

•  Not in Palau, but see 255857 for the quarto edition.   Contemporary mottled sheep with gilt spine extra and marbled endpapers; spine chipped, binding lightly abraded. Front hinge (inside) open; text block firmly attached to binding. Some very light waterstaining and one short marginal note; a nice, clean copy.  (36365)

By the middle of the 18th century the Inquisition's power had waned and its role in daily life was confined almost exclusively to the censorship of books and attempting to control the spread of new ideas. During the French domination of Spain and the puppet reign of Joseph Bonaparte (1808–12), the Inquisition was abolished. The Cortes in 1813 debated reestablishing it and in the end decided not to.

•  Palau 74471.   Contemporary quarter speckled leather with gilt tooling on spine, marbled paper over boards on sides; front joint (outside) abraded and binding overall showing age, fading, and some use. As usual, lacking the frontispiece. Scattered light foxing. A good++ copy.  (30901)

Dated in text 2 December, this would surely have been a most welcome Christmas present!

•  Removed from a binding with sewing holes in inner margins. Date of decree in ink at top of first page. Very good.  (34853)

•  Removed from a bound volume; a few wormholes.  (24392)

•  Modern half vellum over burgundy cloth sides. Contemporary inked notation at top right corner of title-page. Very good.  (21056)

•  Lightly in later wrappers; small ownership stamp eradicated from title-page. A very good exemplar.  (24386)

•  Half vellum with brown cloth sides by Brugalla. Very good copy.  (20392)

•  Disbound, with a bit of pinhole worming not affecting text; lightly laid into later wrappers.  (24388)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat findno copies.

•  Not in Medina, BHA.   Folded as issued; lower margin irregular with mild damp damage.  (33489)

•  Palau 239456ii.   Half vellum with caramel cloth sides by Brugalla. Excellent copy.  (20394)

This is amplification of the “Nuevo Codigo de Leyes” and the “Pragmática Sanción” of 6 July 1792, andWorldCat locates only one copy worldwide.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico.   One fold horizontally across center; a few creases and edges just a bit irregular. Very good condition.  (27950)

•  Folded and never sewn; as issued.  (24389)

•  Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Marbled edges. Tape adhered to one title-page at inner margin. Ownership signatures on title-page. A nice set.  (3584)

Binding: Signed presentation binding by Miguel Ginesta II of Madrid, of oxblood straight-grain morocco, covers framed in double gilt fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesques and the gilt-stamped coat of arms of Queen Isabella II of Spain; spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesques. Board edges and turn-ins gilt-stamped, pink moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.

Provenance: Infante Duc de Montpensier (sixth son of King Louis Philippe), husband of the Infanta Maria Louisa (Queen Isabella’s sister), with his bookplate.

•  Palau 236716. Binding as described above, covers showing only very minor wear, spine slightly faded. Front pastedown with bookplate described above. Pages gently age-toned, a few showing mild foxing but most clean. Very attractive. (5749)

Not in NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, or Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español.

•  Not in Palau. Modern marbled boards with cordovan-colored gilt morocco title-label on front cover. A very good copy.  (7791)

•  Palau 308809 and 308810 (same work with different attributed dates; that of 1750 clearly erroneous). Disbound, with pen-trials and some worming in gutter margin.  (7792)

In this “Address” and in contrast to Sloat's slow, diplomatic, and we might now say “inclusive” approach, Stockton’s words and tone are not conciliatory in any way: “The Mexican Government and their Military Officers have without cause for a year past been threatening the United States with hostilities. . . . General Castro the Commander in Chief of the Military forces of California has violated every principle of international law and national hospitality by hunting and pursuing with several hundred Soldiers, and with wicked intent, Captain Fremont of the U.S. Army who came here to refresh his men (about forty in number) after a perilous journey across the Mountains on a scientific survey.” He further accuses Castro and his men of murder, rapine, desertion, “repeated outrages and hostilities.”

Stockton therefore announces that he “cannot . . . confine my operations to the quiet and undisturbed possession of the defenseless ports of Monterey and San Francisco, whilst the people elsewhere are suffering from lawless violence, but will immediately march against these boasting and abusive Chiefs who have not only violated every principle of national hospitality and good faith towards Captain Fremont and his surveying party, but who unless driven out, will with the aid of hostile Indians keep this beautiful Country in a constant state of revolution and blood.”

He concludes by saying, “The Commander in Chief does not desire to possess himself of one foot of California for any other reason then [sic] as the only means to save from distruction[sic], the lives and property of the foreign residents, and Citizens of the territory, who have invoked his protection.”

Less than a month later, martial law was formally declared.

There is no census of copies of this important Anglo-Californian foundation document. Using the Online Archive of California, NUCMC, and the OPACs of the Bancroft and Hungtington libraries and the California Historical Society, we locateonly the copy contained among the Templeton Crocker manuscripts at the CHS, this in a retained copy of a letter from Stockton to Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. However, we do know of a copy, signed by Stockton, in a private collection.

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

As a side- or footnote not always recalled, Stockton's success in California must have been savorable not only as professional and patriotic triumph, but as redemption as well; his career had somehow *not* been wrecked by an incident in which a faulty cannon of his design had a few years before killed the Secretary of the Navy and a number of other dignitaries during its demonstration!

•  Written on unruled blue wove paper with no watermark or embossed logo. Old folds with some browning along fold lines; small fold tears, repaired; very good condition. One interlinear correction of a word left out and an erasure of the word “the” replaced with “a.” A note in a different, heavier hand: “Como. Stocktons Proclamation Aug, 1846.” In a quarter blue leather clamshell case.  (34855)

•  Written by several notaries so hands are varied. Stitching starting to loosen. A very few leaves with small loss of text to a hungry rodent.  (27598)

•  Sewn, in good condition.  (2218)

•  Viñaza 355; García Icazbalceta, Apuntes, 73; Medina, Mexico, 5187; Sabin 94355; Palau 327486; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., 4678; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Huastec, 15; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3801.   Contemporary limp vellum lacking the leather ties. An attractive, crisp copy and only the fourth complete copy of this work we have seen on the market in 35 years.  (33590)

Confraternities were social and mutual self-help organizations under the very large umbrella of the Catholic Church; membership was usually restricted variously by race, occupation, neighborhood, or ethnicity. Through dues and soliciting alms the confraternities paid for members' funerals, the confraternities' religious festivals, and the maintenance of designated altars and chapels.

Printed within a border of type ornaments open at the bottom, this features a woodcut of the Third Order's coat of arms.

Rare: No copy traced to a U.S. library. Not in any of the standard bibliographies.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico, or its supplements.   One old horizontal fold. Blank margins irregular and with small pieces torn away; thumbnail-sized brown stain in one margin, worming affecting type-ornament border and costing one letter of text, tear in text area repaired from rear. A very good copy.  (37088)

Searches of OCLC and the NUC revealno U.S. libraries holding this “centennial” edition.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 140–41 (for other editions but not listing this one); not in Stalker, The Jesuit Collection in the John J. Burns Library of Boston College; not in Laures, Kirishitan Bunko (which lists other editions).   Contemporary plain mottled calf, round spine with raised bands and title lettered in gilt; rubbed at corners and top spine compartment pulled (or gnawed?) with loss of that leather. Old shelf-label on front pastedown; four paper flaws, one holing a leaf's margin without loss, another at a leaf's edge affecting a sidenote on each side, and two affecting corners; a few scattered spots.  (36870)

•  NSTC 0647541.   Contemporary half green goat and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, top edge gilt; joints and extremities rubbed, inner portion of leather on front cover with patches of light discoloration. Front free endpaper with adhesions from now-absent label. Pages mildly age-toned, with a few instances of light spotting. Indeed a very romantic view (in both text and image) of Spanish fact mixed with fiction.  (34883)