Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

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	Bernhardt Wall
	Texas County and Local History
	Ranching Catalogue Part 1 (A-C) [sold]
	Ranching Catalogue Part 2 (D-G) [sold]

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	Bernhardt Wall
	California Pictorial Letter Sheets
	José Guadalupe Posada

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	Documents Missing from the Texas State Library
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Upcoming Auction Stephen F. Austin’s 1836 map of Texas, the cornerstone for a collection of Texas maps Click for full description with images
Very Fine Copy in Original Cloth of Folsom’sMexico in 1842 With an Unusual Map of the Republic of Texas Click for full description with images	Date To Be Announced Auction 23 Americana: The Usual Suspects--High Spots of Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Photography, Prints & Ephemera Click for Auction 23 Online Catalogue: Abstracts, Detailed Item Descriptions, and Illustrations Search Auction 23 Catalogue: Tip: To search for an exact phrase, put your search terms in “double quotes.” How to Buy and Bid How to Sell	Lyon’s Sketch Book of Mexico with Lithographs on India Proof Paper. Early English Lithography by Hullmandel Click for full description with images
Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology Click for full description with images		Robinson's California Gold Rush guide with map showing the various routes. Wheat, “One of the best of the earliest books on California printed for sale to intending goldseekers.” Enlarge \| Zoom
Wonderful California local history filled with lithograph views and colored maps * Sonoma County and Russian River Valley, Illustrated (San Francisco, [1888]). Enlarge \| Zoom	First Publication of Fifteenth-Century Migration Maps of the Chichimeca Click for full description with images	“The largest single source of printed images based on the Mexican view of the [Mexican-American] War” (Ben W. Huseman, “Eyewitness to War”) Click for full description with images
“Classic Book on Mexico” (Streeter, Texas 1104). Aquatints & Lithos after Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward’s Art Work Click for full description with images	Author’s Copy of a Seminal Mexican Law Treatise. In a Fine Mexican Binding Click for full description with images	Blueback * Blunt's 1846 blueback chart of St. Marks to Galveston, based on survey by Edwin Moore of Texas Navy fame. Enlarge \| Zoom
Transit of Venus-1769. Early Scientific Expedition to California Click for full description with images	The Other Cody * Two rare, colorful posters on Samuel Franklin Cody, Wild West Performer, Pioneer Aviator & Inventor of the “Cody War Kite.” Enlarge \| Zoom	“The most important contemporary map of the Mississippi and the Gulf region”—Streeter “First map with the name Texas”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg Cartographic Filibustering in the Spanish Borderlands Click for full description with images
Original Preliminary Art Work for Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated Click for full description with images	Illustrations of Some of the Foremost Surviving Mesoamerican Pictorial Codices Click for full description with images	Very Rare Immigration Map of British Canada with Strong Political Implications Click for full description with images

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