Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs
Delivered by Redmond Conyngham, at the Lyceum celebration, Fourth of July 1842, at Paradise. With an appendix containing a history of the Piquaws, with a notice of Tanawa, an Indian King of great celebrity. To which is appended anecdotes of William Penn, with the names of the early settlers and dates of settlement.
Contains Matthew and Mark only; apparently all published.
Druckfehler und Verbesserungen: p. [426]-428.
From the collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P98.38.5.
Two items, a small basket-weave scherenschnitte on small rectangle of white paper and a small heart-shaped cut-out with five rows of letters inked in cross stitch style, and scored width-wise five times in Heritage Center folder.
Tipped into inside cover: bookplate in brown ink on wove paper with double ink border reading in German: Magadalena Eby the daughter of Abraham Eby and his wife Susanna was born on June 22 in the year1817.
Tipped into inside back cover is a fraktur drawing of ink and watercolor (green, brown, and red) with a border resembling fish scales; the center is a potted, flowering plant with a large bird perched on top and two smaller ones at the side; at the lower left corner is written in German script: "Elias Burbacher."
