BEIN Taylor 192 4-6: Final blank, F4, wanting. Map Hispaniae Nouae (33 x 44 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm, folded to 32 x 21 cm) bound after t.p. Divisional title for plates with correction "invictis" on third from last line of title. No. 2 of 3 titles boun...
Publisher:
Theodore de Bry
Subject (Geographic):
America, Latin America, and Mexico
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Spanish, History, and Description and travel
Nahuatl map on maguey paper documenting agricultural holdings in the Valley of Mexico, probably fields of bulrush or maize under the colonial jurisdiction of Tenochtitlan-Mexico City, ca. 1565
Description:
Available on x-ray film
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico, Mexico., Mexico City (Mexico), and Mexico, Valley of (Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Alvarado Huanitzin, Don Diego de., Cecepátic, Don Cristóbal de., Guzmán, Don Esteban de., San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin, Don Diego de., Santa María Cipac, Don Luis de., and Velasco, Luis de, 1500?-1564.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Corn, Indian cartography, Indians of Mexico, Discovery and exploration, History, Maps, and Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper (badly damaged) of commentaries, mostly by Juan Zapata y Alarcón, O.S.A, on various philosophical texts, including those by Aristotle and Porphyry
BEIN 2006 Folio 99: Imperfect: wanting the third plate of the third section. Inscription: "Presented to Mr. S.A.W. Patterson, March 15, 1901. Purchased in the City of Mexico, 1847-8, during the war with that country by W.W.H. Davis." Cover title: Recu...
Autograph letter, signed, from Edward Otho Cresap Ord to Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War of the United States. Ord describes the reaction in California and Mexico to the Gadsden Purchase, including American filibusters in Mexican territory and ...
Description:
Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) was an engineer and officer in the United States Army stationed in California and New Mexico Territory, circa 1839-1854.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico., Arizona., New Mexico., Mexico, United States., and United States
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. and Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Filibusters, Gadsden Purchase, Land grants, Railroads, Surveying, and Foreign relations
Rough tracing showing the four leagues granted by the State of Tamaulipas in 1826, as Ejidos of the City of Matamoros and the relative positions ... of the City of Matamoros, City of Brownsville and the U.S. Military Reservation of Fort Brown.
Portrays, imaginatively, an event in the Texas war of independence: the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to American leader Samuel Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto in late April 1...
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored.
Publisher:
Published June, 1836 by the proprietor, H.R. Robinson, 48 Courtlandt Street, New York
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, United States, Mexico., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854., and Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, Campaign, Foreign relations, and Diplomatic relations
