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]
The army and navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea
Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme
A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries
Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.
Edition
The 5th ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,
"To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index)
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].
Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
English colloquial phrases, alphabetically arranged, with a free translation into the German, a literal translation of the German into the English, and the position of the German words in English. Together with a complete explanation of the sounds and the accentuation of the German, for facilitating the study of the German language, and intended especially for those who are desirous of obtaining a knowledge of it without the assistance of a teacher
