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INFORME

QUE SE DIO AL EXCMO. SR. PRESIDENTE

DE LA

REPUBLICA MEJICANA,.

SOBRE LIMITES DE LA PROVINCIA

DE TEJAS.

CON LA DE LA

LUISIANA.

ZACATECAS: 1828. Imprenta del supremo gobierno, à cargo del c. Pedro Piña.

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the Monterey Convention, framing of the State Constitution, etc.) Portrait and plates. 8vo.

Only a few copies printed. author.

Seattle: Privately Printed, 1906 Autograph presentation copy from the

PUELLES' TEXAS-LOUISIANA BOUNDARY, 1828. ONE OF TWO KNOWN COPIES

925. PUELLES (FR. JOSE MARIA DE JESUS). Informe que se dio al Excmo. Sr. Presidente de la Republica Mejicana, sobre Limites de la Provincia de Tejas. Con la de la Luisiana. 38 pp., small 4to, sewn. Zacatecas: Imprenta Pedro Pina, 1828

THE ONLY KNOWN COPY aside from that in the Cusachs Library. Marshall, in his History of the Western Boundary of Louisiana, p. 49, states that Puelles was a priest at Nacogdoches and "made a report on the boundary," but fails to locate a copy or give its title. We are unable to trace the work in any of the collections, nor do we find it recorded in Raines, Thompson or other of the bibliographies consulted.

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926. [QUIGG (LEMUEL E.).] New Empires in the Northwest: The Dakotas, Montana and Washington. 84 pp., 8vo, original New York, 1889

wrappers.

A collection of 37 letters describing the author's travels and observations in the Far West, the high lights of which embrace Western Stagecoaching; Life among the Wyoming Cow-Punchers; Mining in Montana; A Reign of Terror; the Ives Execution, the Virginia City Vigilance Committee; etc.

927. [QUINLAN (JAMES E.).] Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer: and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink.

16mo (badly stained and worn).

Monticello, 1851

ORIGINAL EDITION. Unknown to Sabin, Brinkley and Field.

928. RAMOS DE ARIZPE (D. M.). Idea General sobre la Conducta Politica de D. Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, natural de la provincia de Coahuila, come diputado que ha sido por esta provincia en las Cortes generales y extraordinarias, y en las ordinarias de la Monarquia espanola desde el ano de 1810 hasta el de 1821. 59 pp., 8vo, sewn. Mexico: Impresa Dona Herculana del Villa y socios, 1822

Raines, p. 170. Arizpe, one of the purest patriots of Mexico, friend of S. F. Austin, and Chairman of the committee that reported the Constitution of 1824, was expelled from the Cortes and imprisoned for his audacity in exposing the corruptions of government. Herein he gives a history of his efforts in behalf of Texas, etc., and in the "Notas," pp. 21-59, he brings together various of his documents and reports on New Mexico and California, which include a Memoir in amplification of Pena (No. 896), a discussion of the reunion of Upper and Lower California, etc.

929. RAMSEY (A. C.). The Other Side: or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States, translated from the Spanish and Edited with notes. 10 plates and 13 folding maps. 12mo. New York, 1850

The Mexican side of the causes leading to, and campaigns in, the War. The account of the operations in CALIFORNIA, as differing so vastly from American reports, is of especial interest.

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Cincinnati: U. P. James, 167 Walnut Street.

BATERED account was Congress, in the year 149, wild, in the Cera's Umbers District of New Jura. READ'S HITHERTO UNKNOWN "JOURNEY TO THE GOLD DIGGINS."'

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930. RANDALL (G. M.). Triennial Report of the Rt. Rev. George M. Randall, Missionary Bishop of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Map and plates. 25 pp., 8vo, original wrappers.

N. p., 1868

A first-hand and important relation of travels and observations in the territories named.

931. RANDALL (T. E.). History of the Chippewa Valley. A Faithful Record of all Important Events and Circumstances that have Transpired in the Valley from its Earliest Settlement by White People, Indian Treaties, Organization of the Territory and State, etc. 8vo (title stained). Eau Claire: Free Press Print, 1875 The earliest history of the Chippewa Valley.

932. RANKIN (MELINDA). Texas in 1850. 12mo, original front wrapper.

Boston, 1850

933. RANSOM (LEANDER). A New Map of the States of California and Nevada: Exhibiting the Rivers, Lakes, Bays and Islands, with the principal Towns, Roads, Railroads and Routes to the Mining Districts of Nevada Territory, with the County Boundaries, and U. S. Land Districts. (With inset, Table of Distances.) Large folio, colored, folding into 12mo (covers worn). San Francisco: W. Holt, 1870

934. RAWLINGS (THOMAS). Emigration: An Address to Persons About Emigrating to America. (With Observations on the Western Country.) 12mo, sewn. New York, 1845

READ'S HITHERTO UNKNOWN "JOURNEY TO THE GOLD DIGGINS." 1849

935. READ (J. A. AND D. F.). Journey to the Gold Diggins. By Jeremiah Saddlebags. Illustrated. By J. A. & D. F. Read. Pictorial title-page and 112 illustrations depicting in humorous vein the incidents of the trip to California, experiences on the plains, in San Francisco, at the mines, among the Indians, etc. 64 pp., oblong 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Cincinnati, 1849

A fine and perfect copy of a very remarkable and hitherto unknown book. Not in Cowan, Bancroft, Wagner, or any collection or record consulted. The 112 illustrations (each with its accompanying lines of descriptive text) constitute a series of excellently drawn and highly amusing scenes connected with the first news of the discovery of Gold in California, the preparations for departure, hardships met with, and the perils encountered on the trip to the new Eldorado, life at the mines among the miners, Mormons, etc. In its entirety the volume constitutes a newly found historical phase of the contemporary gold fever, and is without doubt the first (as well as the most pretentious) record, in typical American caricature, of the immense national effect produced by the great discovery of 1849.

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936. REES (WILLIAM). Description of the City of Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa. Exhibiting its Geographical and Local Advan

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