Salazar Carlos.ABAA
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183930885Guatemala: Imprenta de la N. A. de Estudios 1839. Folio 30.7 cm;12.125". 1 f. <br><br>Beginning in 1838 The Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by civil wars pitting Liberals against Conservatives and the desires of the various states against the central government with constitutional issues at the heart of the controversy.<br>Â Â Â Â The Liberals installed Gen. Carlos Salazar in January 1839 as provisional president of Guatemala replacing Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz. This was during a brief period of peace between the two factions. Here in a decree dated 20 March 1839 Salazar offers to act as mediator for any effort at a lasting peace.<br>Â Â Â Â No copy traced via WorldCat COPAC CCILA or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched. We do know of one copy in a U.S. library's backlog! Irregular margins tea-colored waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the leaf date in faded old ink in top margin. A good copy. Imprenta de la N. A. de Estudios unknown books
1850WRCAM40467Mexico: Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro 1850. 123pp. plus two folding maps. Large octavo. Contemporary half calf spine gilt. Head of spine rubbed hinges cracking corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly foxed minor scattered foxing. Very good. The author was the surveyor for the Mexican boundary survey after the Mexican-American War. This work describes his surveys from San Diego to the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers and much of the text consists of daily entries made between July 1849 and January 1850. The folding maps illustrate the port of San Diego and the area of California and Arizona around the junction of the two rivers. "Salazar gives the earliest detailed account of the previously unsurveyed border regions of California and Central Arizona" - Hill. This book is quite scarce on the market and this is only the third copy we have encountered in more than fifteen years. The Streeter copy sold to Dawson's Book Shop for $250 in 1968. STREETER SALE 2648. WAGNER-CAMP 190. HILL 1514. HOWES S47 "b." GRAFF 3652. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 690 691. PALAU 286944. Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro unknown books
