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
Print shows General Winfield Scott, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing front, leading triumphant American troops into Mexico City during the Mexican War
Alternative Title:
General Scott's grand entry into the city of Mexico, Sept. 14th, 1847
Description:
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1848, by J. Baillie, in the Clerk's Office of the Dist't. Court of the South'n. Dist't. of N.Y."
Publisher:
Published by James Baillie
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico City (Mexico), Mexico, Mexico City, and Mexico City.
Subject (Name):
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 and Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866.
Subject (Topic):
Military service, History, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Military personnel, and American
Manuscript on parchment of Gradual, with masses from the second Sunday after Easter through the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, omitting Ascension and Pentecost
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
