Coahuila y Texas en la Epoca Colonial
Mexico, D.F. Editorial Cvltvra, 1938. First edition, 2000 copies. Quarto, 24x18cm, xii, 751, [2]pp. 8 maps (7 folding), 9 plates (3 in color). Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Robles to don Luis Leal, with part of the inscription whited out. Heavy paper wrappers printed in two colors. Some splitting at spine ends, light creasing to spine, and a bit of soiling to wrappers else clean. Very good. First book of three in a history on the area that was once a free and sovereign state of Mexico before both entities seceded due to Santa Anna's attempts at centralization. This book, along with the two subsequent volumes by Robles, have not been translated into English.
Jenkins writes in his Basic Texas Books:
"This work presents the history of Texas as a Spanish Province and state from the Mexican viewpoint.... Using many virginal sources, Alessio Robles presents the history of the area from Spanish colonial times through 1848... Some of the material is almost a direct translation from the works of Hubert H. Bancroft."
Vito Alessio Robles (1879-1957), born in Coahuila, fought in the Mexican Revolution and later became a leading historian and academic on Texas and the northern Mexican states. His bibliographical studies on the area are still of great import.
Basic Texas Books 1. Griffin 2458. Howes R382. Item #5015
Price: $450.00