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Stock# 70777
Description

The First Survey of the New Border of California and Mexico.

"The first detailed printed account of the regions traversed by Salazar, the surveyor for the Mexican border commission . . . Salazar's duties only took him to San Diego and to the confluence of the Gila with the Colorado"--Streeter sale V:2648. (The Streeter copy sold to Dawson's Book Shop for $250 in 1968.)

"Published before the United States report and is the first accurate description of the country"--Graff 3652.

Salazar was the border surveyor for Mexico after the Mexican-American War. This volume describes his survey of the California-Mexico border between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona.

The frontispiece plate, a lithograph portrait of General Mier de Teran, is not called for in the bibliographies.

The latter book includes an essay on "Los Estados-Unidos," pages 18-22. Mexico, 1852.

Maps

The book includes the following two maps:

Plano de la parte austral del puerto de S. Diego, y del terreno comprendido entre dicha parte, el punto incial en la costa del Pacifico y la sesta estacion hecha en la direccion de la linea queue divide las republicas de Mexico y de los Estados-Unidos.

Depicts a trigonometrical survey from south San Diego Bay to the small village of Tiajuana.

Plano de la confluencia de los rios Gila y Colorado y del cursor de este ultimo hasta donde lo corta la linea queue divide las republicas de Mexico y Los Estados Unidos.

Depicts a trigonometrical survey at the junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers near present-day Yuma.

Condition Description
Quarto. Contemporary ½ black sheep over floral-patterned cloth boards, spine tooled in gilt and lettered "YLARREQUI Y VARIEDADE". (Minor edge wear.) 2 lithographed folding maps, of San Diego and Tijuana region and of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. Lithographed frontispiece. 123 pages. Second book: 174, [1] pages (Moderate foxing, most notably to the frontis and 2 maps. Rear hinge split.)
Reference
Howes S47 ("b"); Palau 286944; Sabin 75598; Wagner-Camp 190.