Search Results: Authors starting with D from Bo Rare Americana

Bando escuela de letras. Ozumba 1820. "El Regidor decano D. Ignacio de la Concha, el Sindico D. José Miguel de la Sancha, el Regidor D Jacinto Macedonio Perez... el Maestro de primeras letras... en honor del Patriarca Sr. S. José como Patrono de esta Escuela de Primeras letras...Diciembre 23 de 1820". Broadside, one leaf. 430x310 mm.
Interesting and rare broadsheet inviting to attend to the school of Ozumba (town and municipality located in the southeast portion of the Valley of Mexico) to a mass in honour of Saint Joseph, patron saint of the school, witness the exams which are described in detail and participate in dances and other entertainments through the local streets.
Not in Medina Imprenta en Mexico. No copies traced in USA

Manuscript.. Guatemala Estados Unidos de Centro America - Historia compuesta por Miguel de Prado. Havana 1815. 25 folios numbered from 1 to 21, 23-25, and 27, without numbering 22 or 26, although the folios are complete. Unbound, some pages sewn, with a loose thread.
This manuscript from 1815 was written during the period of the Kingdom of Guatemala, which territorially encompassed what is now Chiapas and Soconusco, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Spain was occupied by the French, and in the Kingdom of Guatemala, the Spanish constitution had been suspended. In 1815, the independence movements continued, which were carried out peacefully, unlike other places in America. In the handwritten booklet, the author Miguel de Prado provides an interesting and thorough analysis of Guatemala in 1815, covering not only its geography, which is also extensive, but also its population, and customs, and even expressing his own opinions.
He begins with a brief history, continues with the… Read More

An intriguing manuscriot letter by Miguel de Músquiz, the commandant of the strategically important post of Nacogdoches in Spanish Texas, written soon after his men killed the legendary mustanger Philip Nolan. Lieutenant Músquiz led the force of over one hundred men that tracked down Nolan in March of 1801, ostensibly for illicit horse catching, but also because of suspicions that he was spying for the United States or involved in a conspiracy with Aaron Burr to invade Texas.
Nacogdoches, Tx. October 8, 1802. 3 pp. on a folded folio sheet of laid paper. Docketed in manuscript on the fourth page. Paper with "Maid of Dort" form of Pro Patria, I.T. Middelink watermark. Drawings of two horse brands in the left margin of the first page. The paper is moderately toned, and the ink is a bit faded but still easily readable.
References: Dan L. Flores, AMERICAN SERENGETI: THE LAST BIG ANIMALS OF THE GREAT PLAINS (Lawrence, Ks., 2016), p.84 and passim. For Philip Nolan: STREETER TEXAS 1028. HOW ES NI68 "dd."… Read More