19th-Century Mexicana
A List Organized Chronologically

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1820s

Campos y Rivas, Manuel del. Broadsheet. Begins: Orden del acompañamiento desde Palacio á la Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana; y desde esta á su regreso al mismo Palacio en la mañana del dia de la inauguracion, benediction y coronacion de SS. MM. el Emperador Agustin primero, y su Esposa Ana Maria, Emperatriz del Imperio de Anahuac, arreglado por el Gefe del Ceremonial. [colophon: {Mexico]: Impr. Imperial del Sr. Valdes, 1822]. Folio. [1] f.
$950.00

•  Dated in the text 29 June 1822. This is the published order of procession for the inauguration of Iturbide as Emperor of Mexico. The actual date of the inauguration had not yet been set.

•  Sutro 284. As issued. One small pin-type wormhole, costing one letter.

Aguirre, José María. Denuncia y acusacion que...hizo. [Mexico]: En la oficina del C. Alejandro Valdés, 1827. Small 4to. 31, [1] pp.
$350.00

•  Father Aguirre denounces to a competent court an eight-page publication entitled Concluye el Monte Parnaso that Rafael Dávila wrote. The court finds Dávila guilty of breaking the obscenity and immoral publications acts and sentences him to jail.

•  Sutro 494. Sewn as issued; light foxing in outer margins.

1830s

Mexico.  Secretaría de Estado. Memoria de Marina presentada á las cámaras el dia 16 de marzo de 1830.... Mexico: Imp. del Aguila dirigida por José Ximeno, 1830. Folio. [1] f., 3, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f.
$225.00

•  Annual report on the state of the navy, with a table of expenses.

•  Not in Sutro. Sewn.

(Patronato).  El patronato analizado contra el patronato embrollado por los novadores, para sacar a la autoridad civil dueña de lo espiritual. Mexico: Reimpreso por Mariano Arevalo, 1833. 8vo. 38 pp.
$250.00

•  Pro-Church analysis of the patronato question.

•  Sutro 695. Sewn, no wrappers. Foxing and browning.

Mexico (city). Ayuntamiento. Manifestacion que hace el Ayuntamiento de esta capital, sobre las contestaciones originadas por la esposicion que elevó al Soberano Congreso Nacional el dia 11 del presente. Mexico: En la oficina de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1837. 8vo. 33 pp.
$225.00

•  Internal governmental squabbling arising from the governor of Mexico's having imposed fines on several city council members.

•  Not in Sutro. Sewn as issued, evidence of wrappers that are no longer present; light dustsoiling.

1840s

Aguirre, Manuel G. Informe dirigido a la primera sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.... Mexico: Imp. de la Sociedad Literaria a cargo de Agustín Contreras, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp.
$225.00

•  Author defends the rights of the state of Mexico in a jurisdictional matter involving the town of Xochimilco and Lic. Nicolás Ortíz. Which court has competence is the question.

•  Sutro 829. Removed from a nonce volume.

Carbajal, Francisco.  Discurso del Diputado Francisco Carbajal sobre la propiedad de los empleos. Mexico: Imp. de Ignacio Cumplido, 1848. 8vo. 52 pp.
$300.00

•  The deputy offers a plan to restore to their former offices those government officials and employees who did not follow the government when it fled to Querétaro during the American invasion. The plan was not adopted.

•  Sutro 837. Removed from a nonce volume.

(La Luz Mine).  Dueños de la Mina de La Luz. Recurso de atentado, que algunos de los dueños de la mina de La Luz han promovido.... Mexico: Impr. de Ignacio Cumplido, 1848. Small 4to. 20 pp.
$240.00

•  Those individuals fighting the assignation of interest in the La Luz mine to Ewen C. Mackintosh (the British consul general) by the heirs of Manuel Rubio here continue their print campaign and for the first time publish documents from the 1820s that confound Rubio's claims to ownership.

•  Sutro 841. Removed from a nonce volume.

(La Luz Mine).  Demanda promovida en Guanajuato por los herederos de D. Manuel Rubio y doña Francisca Posadas, para recobrar sus derechos en la mina de La Luz. Mexico: Tipo. de R. Rafael, 1848. Small 8vo. 26 pp.
$240.00

•  Full and part ownership of La Luz mine is in question.

•  Sutro 838. Removed from a nonce volume.

Arizcorreta, Mariano. Manifestacion que hace al publico...contra la comunicacion dirigida a los propietarios de fincas rústicas del Estado de México, con motivo de la llamada ciruclar del 18 de julio del gobierno del mismo estado. [Toluca?], 1849. 12mo. 18 pp.
$265.00

•  The ex-legislator defends himself against attacks in newspapers and also defends the owners of rural farms from governmental interference.

•  Not in Sutro. Removed from a nonce volume; irregular in inner margins.

Mexico (state). Tribunal Superior de Justicia. Iniciativa que dirige al honorable Congreso del estado libre y soberano de Mexico el Tribunal Superior de Justicia del mismo.... Toluca: Imp. de Juan Quijano, 1849. 8vo. 10 pp.
$245.00

•  The Court is confused by the wording and cannot fathom the intention of Congress regarding several recent laws.

•  Not in Sutro. Removed from a nonce volume; inner margins a little irregular.

1850s

Pérez y Hernández, José María. Discurso pronunciado...la tarde del 27 de setiembre de 1850. Mexico: Tipo. de B. Rafael, 1850. 12mo. 23 pp.
$80.00

•  Independence Day oratory.

•  Sutro 862. Removed from a nonce volume.

Flores Alatorre, Agustín. Contestacion dada al supremo gobierno...como fiscal suplente de la Suprema Corte de Justicia. Mexico: Imp. de la Voz de la Religion, 1850. 8vo. 29 pp.
$250.00

•  Jurisdictional squabbling, differences of opinion concerning censorship, and the role of the state in suppressing anti-Catholic books are addressed in Flores's opinion to the court.

•  Sutro 859. Removed from a nonce volume.

Mexico. Congreso. Cámara de Senadores. Comisión Especial de Tehuantepec. Dictámen de la Comision Especial de Tehuantepec del Senado, encargada de ecsaminar las varias resoluciones dictadas con motivo del privilegio esclusivo concedido á D. José Garay y de proponer la que deba adoptarse, atendido el estado que guarda actualmente este negocio.... Mexico: O'Sullivan y Nolan, 1851. Small 8vo. 51 pp.
$300.00

•  The Special Tehuantepec Commission of the Mexican Senate offered this detailed study to the Senate on 24 March 1851. Reviewing the interest from the colonial era through the 1840s in a trans-isthmian canal for facilitating commerce and communication, it explains the reasons for grant of an exclusive privilege to José de Garay (1801–58) for realizing a canal via Tehuantepec, outlines subsequent developments and complications (i.e., changes of government and constitutions, financing, engineering firms, war with the U.S., etc.), and culminates in denunciation of a decree of 5 November 1846 cancelling the exclusivity of Garay's privilege.

The Commission finds the 5 November decree wrong and unconstitutional and recommends that the Senate repudiate it.

•  Sutro 868. Recent wrappers.

Sierra y Rosso, Ignacio. Representacion dirigida al soberano congreso general. Mexico: Imp. dirigida por M. Castro, 1851. 8vo. 28 pp.
$285.00

•  Sierra seeks to recoup his good name. In the aftermath of the war with the U.S., scapegoats were sought and Sierra was one.

•  Sutro 874. Removed from a nonce volume.

Paul Pérez Galvez, Francisca de. Representacion que eleva a la augusta Camara de Diputados. Mexico: Imp. de Cumplido, 1851. 8vo. 68 pp.
$225.00

•  Author seeks to resolve questions concerning ownership of salt water springs and wells on haciendas belonging to her and her late brother, Juan de Dios Pérez Galvez.

•  Sutro 871. Removed from a nonce volume.

Martínez de la Torre, Rafael. Alegato de bien probado del Lic. D. Rafael Martinez de la Torre en favor del Sr. D. Juan Bautista Francoz. Mexico: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1851. Small 4to. 23 pp.
$250.00

•  Sr. Francoz claims to have an exclusive privilege to use a new weaving technique and Sr. Munguía contests that claim.

•  Not in Sutro. Removed from a nonce volume.

Villaseñor, Ricardo. Alegato jurídico que el Lic. Ricardo Villaseñor como representante de los Sres. D.V. Munguía y D.S. Fortoul presentó.... Mexico: Impr. de J.M. Lara, 1851. Small 4to. 32 pp.
$275.00

•  More legal wrangling in the case of Munguía & Fortoul v. Francoz.

•  Sutro 875. Removed from a nonce volume.

Ramírez, José Fernando. Acusacion presentada al gran jurado de la Camara de Representantes contra el E.S. Ministro de Relaciones. Mexico: Impr. de Juan R. Navarro, 1852. 8vo. 8 pp.
$275.00

•  Publication of the case against the Secretary of Foreign Relations who was accused before a congressional grand jury of legal infractions for the manner in which he restructured the payment of Mexico's foreign debt to Spain.

•  Sutro 884. Removed from a nonce volume.

Franco, Agustín A. Alegacion en derecho que ante la exma. primera sala del Tribunal Superior del Estado de México hizo por parte de la Sra. Doña Magdalena Becerril.... Mexico: Tipo. de R. Rafael, 1852. Small 8vo. 65 pp.
$225.00

•  Legal wrangling over the estate of Rafael Murguía, auctioning of possessions, and costs.

•  Sutro 880. Removed from a nonce volume.

Ruano, Julio. Informe en derecho que en la demanda ejecutiva, sobre pago de 37000 pesos, puesta por Doña Magdalena Becerril, contra D. José Austacio Murguía, albacea que fué del finado Sr. su padre D. Rafael, formó, como patrono del demandado.... Toluca: Tip. del Instituto Literario, á cargo del C. Manuel Jimenez Salgado, 1852. Small 8vo. 45 pp.
$225.00

•  More on the estate of Rafael Murguía and Doña Magdalena.

•  Sutro 884. Removed from a nonce volume.

Castañeda y Nájera, Manuel de. Alegato de buena prueba presentado por parte de la testamentaria del Señor D. Juan de Dios Perez Galvez, en el negocio que sigue contra D. Luis, Da. Concepcion y D. Ignacio Otero. Mexico: Imp. del Instructor del Pueblo, 1853. 8vo. 92 pp.
$250.00

•  Castañeda seeks to have a sale declared null and void. He appears on behalf of the estate of Pérez Galvez and the sale in dispute is of a share in the La Luz mine.

•  Sutro 887. Removed from a nonce volume.

Jecker, Juan B. Alegato de buena prueba presentado por D. Juan B. Jecker... sobre sucesion al Mayorazgo de Riveria.... Mexico: Impr. de J.M. Lara, 1853. 8vo. 45 pp., fold. genealogical tree.
$275.00

•  Mariano Infante y Reina is involved in a messy law suit with María de Jesús Bocarando over succession to an entailed estate. Information provided extends back into the colonial era.

•  Sutro 890. Removed from a nonce volume.

Benavides, Tomás. Informe en derecho que Tomas Benavides ha presentado ante la exma. tercera sala del Supremo Tribunal de Guerra para que le sirva revocar la sentencia de primera y segunda instancia, que se han pronunciado en favor de D. Mariano P. Tagle. Mexico: Imp. de la Calle de Cordobanes Num. 5, a cargo de J. V. Hernandez, 1854. Small 4to. 24 pp.
$250.00

•  Benavides seeks to have the Hacienda de Tepetates and the annexed ranches of San Luis and Tenexcalco returned to the estate of Dolores Campuzano.

•  Sutro 893. Removed from a nonce volume.

1860s and Later

[drop-title] Tolerancia. [México, 1866]. Small 4to. 15 pp.
$275.00

•  Calls for religious intolerance of non-Catholic sects: They are the vanguard of the forces seeking to annex Mexico to the U.S.

•  Not in Sutro. Plain wrappers; age-toning and some fair degree of worming, but sound.

Velázquez de León, Miguel. La Ramirita nueva especie mineral. México: Oficina Tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1885. 8vo. Frontis. port., 32 pp.
$240.00

•  Detailed report on the discovery of a new mineral.

•  Not in Sutro. Original printed wrappers.

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