[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English trans. of Figueroa's "The Manifesto..." S.F.: 1855.

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(CALIFORNIA) Figueroa, Jose. THE MANIFESTO Which the General of Brigade... Makes to the Mexican Republic... San Francisco: The San Francisco Herald Office. 1855. First edition in English. 8vo. 104,(2)pp. With the dedication leaf before the title. Fine copy in original polished purple calf, gilt stamped. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Housed in a calf over cloth folding case.	$3,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
First printed in Spanish (in Monterey) in 1835; it is the second California printed book, and the first one of importance. Figueroa, Governor and Commandante of Sonora and Sinaloa, and after 1833 the political head of Alta California, records and defends his administration 1833-1835. The 1835 original is extremely rare. The 1855 edition appears in both wrappers and our dark blue calf. Zamorano 80 #37. Howes F122. Greenwood 562.


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