These publications are filled with documents concerning the imbroglio. Ancízar's preface to the first is dated 18 September 1855 and that to the second 10 January 1856; while the third has no preface, it dates from 1856 after 16 August, the date of the last document present.

•  In recent plain wrappers. The original printed front wrapper of the second pamphlet is present. A number is stamped in one margin. Some waterstaining is visible on some pages, otherwise this is quite clean.

Niles, the U.S. Postmaster General in 1840–41, also served several terms in the Senate; during his first term, he was an early supporter of the admission of Texas into the Union, and later editions of this work include a history of the state.

•  Shoemaker 25597; Sabin 99547; Allibone 1429. Contemporary treed sheep, spine gilt extra; edges lightly rubbed, back cover showing small abrasions, spine leather creased and with a now-repaired tear. Pages with moderate offsetting (more pronounced opposite the frontispiece) and occasional light spotting. A notably better than usual copy of this very readable book, often found in very worn, “read” condition.

Provenance: Partially erased presentation inscription on first title-page from Julio Núñez, dated 1862.

•  Palau 196836, 196837, 196838. On Núñez, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 665, frames 235-48. Mid-19th-century quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, spine discolored. Private ownership stamps.

The Court had just come through a period during which a military ruler had systematically dismantled the courts and undercut their authority and dignity. Olañeta had assumed his presidency only days before the first document in the collection was penned.

•  Very good condition. A few small tears at folds.

•  Sewn. All four in very good condition.

Handsomely printed on a single sheet, in two columns.

Rare: We fail to trace this piece of exile writing via OCLC, RLIN, NUC Pre-1956, or Palau.

•  In good/very good condition, save for short tears to margins. Good Venezuelan item.

A minor observation on the printing: The paper used is wove, except that of pp. 21–24 which is fine quality laid; and p. 24 is misnumbered "17." One wonders if these pages are cancels. Not found via NUC, OCLC, or RLIN.

•  Posada, Bibliografía bogotana, 392. Modern marbled covered light boards. Brittle paper; small hole in final leaf costing two letters.

François Raymond Joseph de Pons (1751–1812) was archivist for the French Navy. This work also appeared in English, German, and Spanish editions; this is its first edition, and the sole French edition.

Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplates of Thomas Munro on front pastedowns. Unattributed note in pencil in top margin of half-title of vol. I (repeated in substance in the other volumes): “This was Talleyrand’s copy.”

The binding is full marbled sheep (pasta española) with gilt-stamped red spine-labels and raised bands accented with gilt rules.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 275. Original red slipcase; rubbed, chipped and splitting along edges, with some paper loss at corners; case spine sunned. Spine leather a bit darkened, bottom of front joint starting. A very good copy, in a good slipcase.

•  BAL 16346; Gardner P-7; Sabin 65272. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spines with gilt-stamped titles; sunned and with small spots of discoloration, spines each showing traces of a now-absent shelving label. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s bookplate, institutional rubber-stamp, and speckled show-through of binder’s glue. Light to moderate foxing throughout.