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Description: Original green cloth and decorative boards, quarto (7.5 x 11.5 inches), 24pp. A critical document addressing problems in Mexico's administration of the Californias in light of its newly-acquired independence from Spain. Fine in faded plain green paper jacket
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Ed xxivpp, ltd ed of 250 copies, illus, pict. cloth/boards nice A Grabhorn Press item, first English Translation, done for the Zamarano Club.
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter green cloth with green decorated paper-covered boards, 4to., 24, (1) pages. One of 250 copies printed in red and black on handmade paper by the Grabhorn Press. Pencilled notes indicate that this is one of 5 copies printed on handmade paper for presentation. A fine copy with just a trace of wear to the spine ends, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 250 copies printed. 25pp; 4to; bound in green and yellow decorated boards, dark green cloth back, yellow spine label printed in red. Title page in red & black; pagination, headings and colophon in red. Type Lutetia, handset on French paper mold made. [Grabhorn bibliography, 410]. Regarding response to the 1821 proclamation from Mexico, which decreed that an oath of support for the new Mexican Regency of Iturbide, be taken by the California Missions. Though Martin apparently never visited California, he had enough information on the economics and agricultural industry of the missions to be considered one of its early boosters. Given the introduction by Wagner, it might be hard to cut him some contextual slack for the embarrassing, overtly racist comments regarding the California Indians. [Together With] Carillo, Carlos Antonio. Exposition Addressed to the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union by Senor Don Carlos Antonio Carrillo, Deputy for Alta California Concerning the Regulation and Administration of the Pious Fund. John Henry Nash, 1938. Limited Edition. xx, 15 pp., (1) ; 4to, green cloth backed boards, paper spine label. Blue plain paper jacket with sticker shadow on front. Fine condition in near fine jacket.
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English. One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Translated into English with an Introduction by Henry R. Wagner. Quarto. 25pp. Handset type. Green and yellow decorated boards, dark green cloth spine, yellow spine label printed in red. A very fine copy. Written during the first year of Mexican rule in California and addressed to Carlos Maria de Bustamante, the secretary of the United Committee on Ecclesiastical Affairs and Colonization in Mexico, this otherwise little-known document extols California's economic potential, while criticizing the Franciscan missions and missionaries for impeding the region's development. [Grabhorn: 410].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.