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Smithers, Adelaide (Translator); Galvin, John (Editor) : The Coming of Justice to California: Three Documents

John Howell--Books, San Francisco, CA, 1963

Limited Edition, one of 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Front colophon on copyright page: "750 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy." Original publisher' red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Offset illustration of Lady Justice on front cover. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." Eighty pages, complete. Four illustrations in black-and-white and color (mostly in black-and-white), complete. Two black-and-white maps (one of which is a folding map) in the back, complete. Illustrations and maps named under List of Illustrations. Some leaves unopened. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Sharp, unbumped corners. Pages lightly age-toned. A Fine copy. A collection of three reprinted historical documents, translated into English from the Spanish, relating to the establishment of law in early California when it was controlled by Spain and Mexico. The following are the three documents: "Rules and Regulations for the Presidios on the Frontier Line of New Spain, Ordered by King Carlos III in a Decree of September 10, 1772," "Speech of Carlos Antonio Carrillo in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Requesting Adequate Courts for the Administration of Justice in Alta California, 1831," and "Decree of President Santa Anna of Mexico, May 22, 1834 Establishing Circuit Tribunals and District Courts." Two Appendices in the back comprise "Select Articles of a Decree of the Spanish Cortes, of October 9, 1812, concerning the Constitutional Magistrates of the Towns" and "Articles of the Mexican Law of May 20, 1826, concerning Circuit Courts and District Judges." Translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers. Edited by John Galvin.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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