Memorias para la Historia la Guerra de Tejas

by D. Vicente Filisola

$6,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First Cumplido Edition. 511, 3 ;267pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Minor toning. Very good. Basic Texas Books 62; Howes F126, b ; Palau 91612; Raines p.82; Sabin 24324; Reese, Best of the West 107. Item #370865 This is the best account by a Mexican contemporary of the American conquest of Texas. Eugene C. Barker called it 'the only comprehensive history of the colonization

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