[Rarebooks] FS: The Suppressed Government's Story of the Conquest of California, 1843

[Charles Agvent]

[CALIFORNIA]. TAKING POSSESSION OF MONTEREY. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 
... IN RELATION TO THE TAKING POSSESSION OF MONTEREY BY COMMODORE THOMAS 
AP CATESBY JONES. [Washington], [1843]. First Edition. Modern cloth; 117 
pages. House Exec. Doc. 166. Cowan, page 317; Howes M-740; New Howes 
M-747 "b": "Presents the Government's story of the conquest of 
California. Said to have been suppressed." Merk History of the Westward 
Movement, pages 356-357: "In 1842 the commander of an American squadron 
in the Pacific, Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, hearing a report that 
war had broken out between the United States and Mexico, seized the port 
of Monterey and hoisted the American flag. When the report proved to be 
false, he withdrew and apologized. But his act revealed the temper of 
American naval policy in the Pacific." Near Fine and uncommon. (#004557) 
     $125.00

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