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[TEXAS]. -- [GONZALEZ, Rafael]. Nota estadística remitida por El. Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Coahuila y Tejas... Mexico: Aguila, 1826.
8o (201 x 147 mm). Title within ornamental border. (Lacks preliminary blank.) Stitched.
FIRST EDITION of this "invaluable summary of the state of affairs in Coahuila and Texas at the time" (Streeter). The author, governor of Coahuila and Texas, gives details of frontier mail service, health, education, industry and colonization. He reports a severe epidemic of measles and intermittent fever, as well as a lack of small pox vaccine. Indian hostilities are incessant, and he has entered six colonization contracts to settle in Texas 3,100 families from the U.S., with contracts pending for 400 English families. Not in Sabin. Howes N-211; Streeter Texas 709 (locates four copies).
8o (201 x 147 mm). Title within ornamental border. (Lacks preliminary blank.) Stitched.
FIRST EDITION of this "invaluable summary of the state of affairs in Coahuila and Texas at the time" (Streeter). The author, governor of Coahuila and Texas, gives details of frontier mail service, health, education, industry and colonization. He reports a severe epidemic of measles and intermittent fever, as well as a lack of small pox vaccine. Indian hostilities are incessant, and he has entered six colonization contracts to settle in Texas 3,100 families from the U.S., with contracts pending for 400 English families. Not in Sabin. Howes N-211; Streeter Texas 709 (locates four copies).