Auction 11, Cartography
Rarities

Items 51-75

51. [BROADSIDE]. TEXAS. GOVERNOR (J. S. Hogg). Proclamation by the Governor of Texas. To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Whereas, I Have Appointed a Live Stock Sanitary Commission for the State of Texas.... Austin, September 28, 1893. Folio broadside. Small chip to lower edge, small tear at lower edge where previously folded, else very fine.
        First printing. Establishes a livestock quarantine line necessary to prevent the spread of disease among domestic animals of Texas, "commencing at the southwest corner of the county of Pecos...on the Rio Grande...to the northeast corner of Lipscomb county." Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($250-500)

52. [BROADSIDE]. [BLACK HISTORY]. Two illustrated book advertisements printed and engraved on each side of a 4to sheet of newsprint: (1) The Entwined Lives and Wonderfully Romantic Adventures of Miss Gabrielle Austin...and of Redmond the Outlaw.... [lurid illustration of the topless, White Miss Austin being publicly whipped by a Black constable, her arm artfully obscuring her bosom]; (2) The Beautiful and Accomplished Charlotte Temple, an Account of Her Elopement with Lt. Montroville. N.p., n.d. (nineteenth century). Browned, left edge chipped, one small hole not affecting text. Fine.
        Rare large-format ads for popular fiction, the first illustration especially sensational. Text accompanying the image screams: "It reads like a Novel! Thrills like a Romance!...The horrors of the Whipping Post. Miss Austin sentenced to suffer for a crime of which she is perfectly innocent-stripped to the waist-publicly disgraced, and whipped by a negro constable."
($150-300)

52A. [BROADSIDE]. STITH, Henry. To the Voters of Pickens County. Pickensville [Alabama?]: Lyon, 1845. Large folio broadside printed in 5 columns. Creased where formerly folded and a bit of minor foxing.
        In this long campaign letter dated at Carrollton, July 9, 1845, Stith writes as candidate for reelection to the state legislature. Much of it is about the act of incorporation for Carrollton and gambling. "The magnificent land of Texas" is mentioned, including annexation (which Stith enthusiastically encourages).
($50-100)

53. BROWN, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. Austin: L. E. Daniell, [1896]. 762 pp., plates and text illustrations (mostly portraits). Large 4to, original dark slate green cloth, marbled edges. One small snag to spine and minor shelf wear, hinges cracked. Much better condition than usually found.
        First edition. Basic Texas Books 23: "This is Brown's most important book and one of the best works on Texas Indian fighters and...pioneers.... The large volume contains hundreds of biographical sketches of early Texans of the nineteenth century, with an immense amount of material that appears nowhere else. Most valuable of all are the accounts of the numerous fights and skirmishes between early Texans and Indians. Only in the works of J. W. Wilbarger and A. J. Sowell does one find a comparable amount of historical data on this facet of Texas history. Brown was himself a participant in some of the bloodiest battles." Howes B857. Rader 514. Brown come to Texas in the days of the Republic and was an eye-witness to many of the events that he describes. The first 128 pages are devoted to a history of the Indian wars with the remainder of the book being biographies of over 500 Texas pioneers and their families.
($400-800)

54. BRYAN, Guy M. Address to the People of the State of Texas. [Galveston, December 29, 1860]. 4-page folder, printed on p. 1 in 3 columns. A few minor voids, with loss of only a letter or two. Pencil notes of Dorman David and price of $250 at top right.
        First printing. Winkler (1334) locates one other copy (UT). Bryan's speech indicts Governor Houston for despotism for failing to call the legislature into session to elect delegates to a convention to "consult upon and devise the best mode and the measure of resistance to and procure the sanction of the sovereign State of Texas thereto."
($750-1,500)

BURLESON CERTIFIES CALVIN GAGE'S SERVICE AT SAN JACINTO

55. BURLESON, Edward. Autograph document, signed, certifying service of Calvin Gage at the Battle of San Jacinto, dated at Colorado, June 4, 1836. 1 p., 12mo, with docketing on verso. Attached at left corner with wax seal: printed pay voucher completed in manuscript entitling Calvin Gage to $24 for 3 months' service from March 1 to June 4 in the Texas army, dated at Columbia, December 27, 1836. Leaves attached at left corner with a wax seal. Browned, two short splits to voucher. Fine.
        Documents in Burleson's hand are difficult to obtain. Burleson came to Texas in 1830. In December 1835, he was commissioned commander in chief of the volunteer forces by the Provisional Government, and in March 1836 he was officially elected colonel of the First Infantry Regiment of the Texian army. Burleson was commander of the Texas forces at the Siege of Bexar and was second in command to Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto. His regiment was the first to charge the Mexican forces at the Battle of San Jacinto. From July to December 1836 he was colonel of the frontier rangers (predecessor to the Texas Rangers). In 1838 he laid out the town of Waterloo (later Austin). Burleson served Texas in many military engagements, including the defeat of the Córdova insurrectionists (1838), the defeat of the Cherokees at Pecan Bayou (1839, over which he had a falling out with Sam Houston for killing Chief Bowl's son), and defeat of the Comanches at Plum Creek (1840). He raised the Texian troops for both the Vásquez and the Woll invasions but turned command over to Somervell, whom Houston sent to replace him. Burleson was elected vice president in 1841. In the Mexican-American War, he was senior aide-de-camp and served as a spy during the siege of Monterrey and at Buena Vista. Burleson was described by a contemporary as "a remarkable, plain, kind-hearted, benevolent, honest and unambitious man" and "a great Indian fighter." Calvin Gage came to Texas in 1834 and located in Bastrop country. He was slightly wounded at San Jacinto. See The Handbook of Texas Online (Edward Burleson; Army of the Republic of Texas); Dixon & Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto, pp. 125-6, 169; and Medlar (Columbia) 13.
($300-600)

UNRECORDED REPUBLIC IMPRINT
FANCY INVITATION TO A BALL HONORING BURLESON

56. [BURLESON, EDWARD]. Complimentary Ball. The Pleasure of your company is requested at a Complimentary Ball, to be given to Gen. Edward Burleson, at the Capitol, on the evening of Monday, the 22d instant, congratulatory of his election to the Vice-Presidency of the Republic of Texas. Managers...K. L. Anderson...Anson Jones...Samuel Whiting...Thomas Pilsbury, R. M. Williamson, W. L. Cazneau.... City of Austin, Nov. 9th, 1841. 4-page 8vo folder, printed on p. [1]. Inconsequential light discoloration, else fine. Good exhibit potential.
        Unrecorded Republic imprint honoring one of its leading military commanders and statesmen. Burleson was commander of the Texas forces at the Siege of Bexar and second in command to Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto. The barely literate Burleson served as vice president during Sam Houston's second administration and became leader of the anti-Houston forces, losing the presidency to Anson Jones in 1844. Streeter records similar imprints (e.g., 432, 433, 434, etc.), but not the present one. In the introduction to his bibliography, Streeter mentions other similar invitations to social events as among the most desirable Texas imprints (see p. 14).
($750-1,500)

57. BURNABY, Andrew. Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the Years 1759 and 1760.... London: Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, 1798. xix [1, blank] 209 pp., tables (1 folding), 2 engraved plates, large folding engraved map: Map of Dr. Burnaby's Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America (Mews Gate: T. Payne, November 22, 1798; 36 x 36 cm; 14-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches; scale not stated; red line indicates Burnaby's route). 4to, tan calf over contemporary marbled boards, red leather spine label. Some shelf wear, interior with moderate to heavy foxing, generally good to very good, with contemporary ink ownership inscription on title; map with two small tears at juncture with book block, good to very good.
        Third edition, revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged (first edition, London, 1775). Howes B995. Important travel account of the Revolutionary era by an exacting clergyman who saw the dangers of taxation without representation and exploitation by the mother country. Includes information on commerce, Native Americans, politics, social life, etc. Burnaby visited the length of the settled area of the colonies, stopping in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Princeton, Newport, Annapolis, Mt. Vernon, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, etc. Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($200-400)

ONE OF BURNET'S EARLIEST LETTERS AS PRESIDENT OF TEXAS,
COSIGNED BY RUSK—
APPOINTING MENARD AS AGENT TO THE SHAWNEE, DELAWARE, AND KICKAPOO

58. BURNET, David G. Autograph letter, signed by Texas President Burnet, and with endorsement signature of Secretary of War Thomas J. Rusk, addressed to Michael B. Menard, dated at Executive Department, Texas, March 20, 1836. 1 p., 4to. Very pale waterstain at center and uniform age-toning, otherwise very fine.
        An excellent letter, signed by Burnet and Rusk, written only four days after Burnet was elected president of the turbulent ad interim government of Texas. Burnet appoints Menard as special agent for the Republic of Texas to the Shawnee, Delaware, and Kickapoo tribes residing in the department of Nacogdoches. Menard was well suited for this appointment, having long traded and trapped with Texas tribes, beginning in 1819, eventually being made a Shawnee chief. Menard came to Texas in 1829, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, and organized the Galveston City Company. See The Handbook of Texas Online (Burnet, Rusk, and Menard).
($4,000-8,000)

59. BURNET, David G. Manuscript, signed. Accounting from R. A. Ferguson for 30 days board and lodging, dated September 14, 1836, with Burnet's autograph note: "Mr. Hoskins will please charge this acct to the government. David G. Burnet, Prest." 1 p., tall 16mo, fine.
        Burnet was president ad interim of Texas from March 16 to October 22, 1836.
($250-500)

"THE FIRST DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF THE TEXAS OF THE COLONIZATION PERIOD" (STREETER)

60. BURNET, David G. To Messrs. Anthony Dey, Wm. H. Sumner and George Curtis.... A Brief Account of Texas.... Colonies of...Zavala, Vehlein and Burnet.... [New York? 1830]. 4-page folio folder. Creased where formerly folded, some soiling at old creases.
        First edition. Streeter 1116 (2 copies, Yale & TxU): "This letter of Burnet seems to be the first descriptive account published in the United States of the Texas of the colonization period. It was issued to aid the promotion of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company.... Two paragraphs at the end...recommend entering Texas by way of Galveston, where agents of the company would be stationed about January 1, 1831, to assist intended settlers. They also state terms, not as far as I know printed elsewhere, of the premiums in land which will be given contractors by the Bay Company for introducing families, and emphasize that the colonization must be according to the laws of Mexico." Vandale 26.
($3,000-6,000)

SIGNED BY THE FIRST TEXAS PRESIDENT AND THE FIRST TEXAS GOVERNOR

61. BURNET, David G. & J. Pinckney Henderson. Printed appointment form completed in manuscript, signed by David G. Burnet and Pinckney Henderson. Austin, December 22, 1846. Oblong folio, ornate lettering at top. Filing note on verso. Some bleed-through from ink, else fine.
        J. Pinckney Henderson signed this document as the first governor of Texas after statehood. Burnet, who signs here as secretary of state, was the first ad interim president of Texas. By this document Thomas William Ward was appointed general commissioner of the General Land Office.
($2,500-5,000)

62. [BURR, AARON]. DAVIS, Matthew L. Memoirs of Aaron Burr, with Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836-37. xiv [19] 436 + 449 [1, blank] 32 (ads) pp., frontispieces, folding facsimile letter. 2 vols., 8vo, original brown pebbled brown cloth, printed spine labels. Light outer wear, mild foxing.
        First edition. Howes D126. Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.

(2 vols.)
($100-200)

63. BURRUS, Ernest J. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain. [Tucson]: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1965. [10] 104 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, 17 maps. Folio, original red cloth. Very fine.
        First edition, limited edition (750 copies). Hill, p. 41: "[Kino's 1705 map of California] is the earliest extant showing the Gila River, the Colorado River, and southern Arizona, on the basis of exploration. His letters, diaries, and map are indispensable sources for knowledge of the development of geographical ideas concerning California and for the early history of the region south of the Gila on both sides of the Gulf of California."
($350-450)

ONLY KNOWN SIGNATURE BY AN EARLY TEXAS HORSE MARINE

64. BURTON, I[saac] W[atts]. Manuscript field notes, signed, for a survey of 920 acres in Nacogdoches County for Michael Costley. [Nacogdoches?], February 18, 1837. 2 pp., 8vo. Lower corner chipped, creased where folded and lightly browned, else very good.
        A rare document, there being no record before of any Burton document. Burton was one of the early distinguished rangers who specialized in capturing steamboats to keep the Mexicans from landing supplies on the Texas coast; his command became known as the Horse Marines (see The Handbook of Texas Online: Horse Marines; Isaac Watts Burton). He also served on a commission to choose a site for the capital of the Republic of Texas. Michael Costley was also a ranger in 1836, and in 1836 or 1837 founded the town of Douglass in Nacogdoches County, probably on the land described here.
($150-300)

65. BURTON, Richard F. The City of the Saints, and across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862. xii [4] 574 [2] pp., engraved frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps. 8vo, original blue embossed cloth. Some shelf wear (especially at spinal extremities), contemporary pencil ownership inscription. Very good copy, the maps fine.
        First American edition. Cowan p. 87. Graff 512. Howes B1033. Plains & Rockies IV:370:2. The irrepressible Captain Burton departed from Saint Joseph on August 7, 1860, and arrived at Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendices contain a number of Mormon documents including an emigrant's itinerary showing distances between camping places, a description of the Mormon Temple, "The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith" by Apostle John Taylor, and a Mormon chronology. Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($300-600)

66. BYWATERS, Jerry (artist). Texas Courthouse. [1938]. Original black & white lithograph. 51 x 35.5 cm (20 x 14 inches) on a 55.6 x 45 cm (21-7/8 x 17-3/4 inch) sheet. With signed presentation inscription from the artist to J. Frank and Bertha Dobie in left margin: "For 'Mr. Frank', the author, who had much influence on me as a painter, searching for 'the way & the light'-and for Bertha and Frank, friends, with whom we have had many pleasant times-with many more ahead. With immense respect-From Mary & Jerry Bywaters. 11/17/50." Very fine, with a great inscription. Under glass, dark wood frame.
        Limited edition (50 copies). The image is not of a specific Texas courthouse, but rather an artistic synthesis of the idea and iconography of those grand old piles of history. Jerry Bywaters was born in Paris, Texas in 1906. His career spanned more than fifty years, although the majority of his work dates from 1933 to 1943. Bywaters's work is representative of the American regional artists of the period and stylistically parallels the American Scene movement. He portrayed the people, architecture, and landscapes of his Southwest with appreciation, fondness, and humor; and he worked equally well in several mediums, including painting, lithography, and public murals. Bywaters was first recognized as an artist of national importance in 1933 when Art Digest announced that he had "arrived." During the New Deal he completed six federally sponsored public mural projects at the Old City Hall in Dallas, Paris (Texas) Public Library, the Trinity, Quanah, and Farmersville Post Offices, and the Parcel Post Building in Houston. In the 1940s his artistic output began to be limited by his responsibilities as director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, a position he held for 20 years from 1943 to 1964. In 1981, he presented SMU with a gift of his papers on regional art and artists to form the Jerry Bywaters Collection on Art of the Southwest. See The Handbook of Texas Online (Gerald Williams [Jerry] Bywaters).
($2,500-5,000)

FIRST SPANISH HISTORY TO MENTION OÑATE

67. CABRERA DE CORDOBA, Luis. Felipe Segundo Rey de Espana.... [Madrid: Sanchez, 1619]. [8] 1,176 [30] pp., fine engraved title depicting Philip II with conquistadors on one side and the Virgin on the other. Folio, full seventeenth-century calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands. Binding worn and dry, joints cracked, but internally very fine and crisp, with a strong impression of the attractive frontispiece.
        First edition. Palau 38191: "Dificil de hallar completo y en buen estado." Salva 2850: "La mayor parte de los esemplares se encuentran faltos del frontis grabado por Perret, y son poquisimos los que estan bien tratados." Wagner, Spanish Southwest 25 (locates no copies in the U.S.). This is the principal work of Cabrera (1559-1623), who fought to defend the Knights of Malta against Venetian and Turkish pirates, arranged the archives and library of Phillip II, and later became Secretary to the Queen. Book IX covers Drake's incursions in the Indies, and book XII deals with the discoveries in New Spain, with extensive coverage of the celebrated Oñate expedition to New Mexico. This is the first Spanish history to mention Oñate. Among the early visitors to Texas who are covered are Cabeza de Vaca (1528 with Narvaez), Coronado (to Texas Panhandle, Palo Duro and Tule Canyons, and the Rio Grande, 1541), Bonilla (Great Plains of Texas, 1595), and Oñate (El Paso, 1598). Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($600-1,200)

THE ROYAL REGLAMENTO GOVERNING THE FRONTIER PRESIDIOS IN TEXAS

68. CARLOS III (King of Spain). Reglamento e instrucción para los presidios que se han de formar en la linea de frontera de la Nueva España resuelto por el Rey Nuestro Señor en cédula de 10 de setiembre de 1771. Mexico: La Oficina de la Aguila, dirigida por Jos Ximeno, 1834. 30 pp. Small folio, original plain paper wrappers. Very fine, preserved in a half morocco folding box.
        The first edition of this important and enduring borderlands decree was published in Spain in 1772, followed by Mexico City editions in 1773 and 1790. Thereafter, the bibliography is a unclear. Wagner, Spanish Southwest (159c) notes an edition of 1772 with 46 pages (one location) and comments: "This edition contains no imprint but has all the appearance of having been printed in one of the frontier provinces before 1825, very likely at Saltillo or Monterey." Wagner's next entry (159d) is a Monterrey (Nuevo León) edition with 54 pages (one location), and he comments: "There is a notice in the catalogue of the Andrade sale of an edition in 30 pages folio, Mexico, 1834, and I have seen a notice of another edition of Madrid, 1822." Streeter (706B) notes the present edition, and locates no copies in Texas, only the Bancroft copy and his own (now at Yale). Streeter follows Wagner's findings and adds two intriguing comments: "Sabin 56262 records a Madrid, 1822, edition. In June, 1955, Dawson of Los Angeles quoted at $75 an edition published at Ures, Sonora, in 1855." Cowan, p. 526 (listing the Madrid 1772 edition and a 1773 edition without noting place of publication). Eberstadt, Texas 162:141 (the Mexico, 1773 edition) & 142 (present edition). Graff 3913 (his entry 3912 is the Madrid 1772 edition). Harper, Texas, Mexico, and the Southwest 12: "Of the most fundamental importance in the history and bibliography of Texas and the Spanish Southwest." Howes N225 (follows Wagner and adds the present edition). Palau 254622. Tate, The Indians of Texas, p. 218: "Rubí conducted one of the most important tours of Spanish Texas, and he concluded that because imperial troops were spread too thin to deal with Indians and European interlopers, a total reorganization was needed. Rubí called for the abandonment of the overextended East Texas missions and a strengthening of mission-presidio complexes around San Antonio."
        Bibliographical complexities aside, this handsome imprint is of primary importance for the Spanish Southwest and the borderlands. "This Reglamento grew out of the tour of inspection of the Marqués de Rubí and contains the substance of the Instrucción which was prepared in Mexico and printed in 1771. It was in effect for a long time, as can be seen from the number of editions printed. The line of presidios marked out by Rubí formed a cordon of fifteen. It extended from Altar in Sonora to La Bahía in Texas and was maintained with a few exceptions until the Revolution, and in fact even later. The republican government in Mexico made a few changes in location, but generally speaking the system lasted until early 1850" (Wagner 159). Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($750-1,500)

69. [CATLIN, GEORGE]. DONALDSON, Thomas. "Part V. The George Catlin Indian Gallery...with Memoir and Statistics," in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...July, 1885. Part II. Washington: HRMD15, pt. 2, 1886. xiii [1] (index to Annual Report); xi [1] 264; vii [1] 939 pp., 144 plates (mostly wood engraved, but including 3 photogravure portraits of Catlin at different stages of his life); 7 maps. The maps include 5 wood-engraved maps in text (3 fold-out), and 2 large folding photolithographic maps at end: (1) ATKINS, John D. C. Map Showing the Location of the Indian Reservations within the Limits of the United States and Territories...1885 (51.2 x 84 cm; 20-7/8 x 33-3/8 inches; tinted tan and terracotta); (2) STRUM, G. P. Indian Territory 1887... (61 x 81.2 cm; 24 x 32-1/4 inches; full vivid color, by Julius Bien). Thick 8vo, original full government sheep (neatly rebacked with matching leather, black leather spine label, fresh endpapers). Original covers moderately scuffed, marginal browning to preliminary and terminal leaves, a few short splits (no losses) to the first of the two large folding maps at end.
        First edition. This scarce and valuable mammoth compilation includes facsimiles of documents, tables, Native American linguistics, Catlin's itineraries, a history of the Indian Territory, and much historical data unavailable elsewhere on Native American tribes, 1820-1886. Of special interest is material on Catlin's experiences in Texas and on Texas tribes, including plates: Great Comanche Village, Texas, in 1834; and Comanche Feats of Horsemanship. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 43: "Catlin was our first real painter of the West." Field 260. Howes C241 & D416. McCrackin 8. Pilling 689. Plains & Rockies IV:84:8. Raines, p. 46. Tate, The Indians of Texas 2145: "Includes notes made by Catlin during his 1834 trip to the Wichita Mountains with the Dodge-Leavenworth expedition. Catlin described and sketched Comanches, Kiowas and Wacos for his final report." Wheat, Transmississippi West, pp. 453-5. See Richard Ribb's interesting article on Catlin in The Handbook of Texas Online (George Catlin). Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($250-500)

70. [CAZNEAU, Jane Maria Eliza McManus Storms]. Texas and Her Presidents. With a Glance at Her Climate and Agricultural Capabilities. By Corinne Montgomery [pseudonym]. New York: E. Winchester, New World Press, 1845. [2, title] vi [9]-122 [6, ads] pp., engraved portraits (Lamar, Houston, and Archer), text illustrations. 12mo, modern half burgundy morocco over maroon cloth. Some offsetting to title from portrait, old ink number "10" on title. Very rare.
        First edition. Streeter 1572 (6 copies, none in Texas, most defective in some respect): "Important [for] showing the opinion of an intelligent contemporary on Burnet and his successors. Burnet and Lamar come off well, with Houston characterized in one instance as 'drunk, wavering and unreliable'.... In an appendix...there is a scathing sketch of Houston and a short note on Anson Jones, both said by Mrs. Cazneau to be by 'a high authority,' and an appreciative sketch by her of Branch T. Archer. At the beginning there is an introduction on how annexation came about." William L. Cazneau whom she had married by 1850 was active in the Texas congress and later engaged in various colonization schemes in Texas, the West Indies, and Central America. One of these was to establish a town site at Eagle Pass on the "Rio Grande." Wallace (Destiny and Glory, Chapter 12) describes the author as "the most adventurous of any American woman on record" and says that she "deserves far more than the oblivion which has been her fate." Notable American Women I:315-16: "Her career...epitomizes the cycle of nineteenth-century American expansionism." See The Handbook of Texas Online (Jane Maria Eliza McManus Cazneau).
($6,000-12,000)

71. CHANDLESS, William. A Visit to Salt Lake; Being a Journey across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlements at Utah. London: Smith, Elder, 1857. xii, 346 pp., lithographed folding map: Map Shewing the Author's Route (16.2 x 28.5 cm; 6-3/8 x 11-1/8 inches; scale not stated). 8vo, original orange blind-stamped cloth. Spine light, hinges cracked, front endsheet stained. Armorial bookplate of Hugh Gurney Barclay on front pastedown.
        First edition. Cowan, p. 113. Graff 646. Howes C286. Plains & Rockies IV:287: "Chandless crossed the plains as a wagon driver in the summer of 1855, departing from Atchison in July and arriving at Salt Lake City on the first of November. The long description of Salt Lake and the Mormons is based on his stay of two months. In January 1856 he set out for California by way of Fillmore, Cedar City, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Camp found the account 'a very entertaining book.'" Donated to the Texas State Historical Association by Shirley and Clifton Caldwell.
($400-800)

72. CHANNING, William E. A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States. Boston: Munroe, 1837. 72 pp. 12mo, later blue cloth. Preliminary leaves foxed and stained, with a few marginal tears and repairs.
        First edition of this famous anti-Texas pamphlet. Eberstadt, Texas 162:136: "Justin H. Smith says [this important pamphlet] 'exerted a wonderful influence in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico, and still echoes in current books and in public sentiment.'" Raines, p. 48: "The mental equipoise of the great moralist was habitually disturbed by his abhorrence of slavery. The letter was translated into Spanish immediately and circulated in Mexico." Streeter 1266.
($100-200)

73. [CHILD, D. L.]. The Texan Revolution. Republished with Additions from the Northampton (Massachusetts) Gazette, to Which Is Added a Letter from Washington on the Annexation of Texas, and the Late Outrage in California, by Probus [caption title]. [Washington, 1843]. 84 pp. 8vo, disbound. First and last leaves foxed, previous owner's signature in ink in upper corner. Preserved in half calf slipcase.
        First edition of letters published the previous year in the Northampton Gazette, with added material on California and Oregon that did not appear in the newspaper articles. Cowan, p. 116. Howes C380. Streeter 1451: "The tenor of these letters appears from the title of the second one: The Kindness and Generosity of the Mexicans, the Ingratitude and Falsehoods of the American Emigrants, and the Pretexts of the Revolution.... Discusses and criticizes at length the taking of Monterey by Commodore Jones in 1842 and incidentally comments adversely on our claims to Oregon." No. 4 discusses the "Real Causes of the Revolution," which he argues were "to maintain slavery against the Government of Mexico...and to open in Texas a perpetual slave market."
($1,000-2,000)

74. CHILTON, F. B. Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade on the Capitol Grounds at Austin, Texas [1910] and Minutes of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade Association...Together with a Short Monument and Brigade Association History and Confederate Scrap Book.... Houston: Published by the author, 1911. 370 [4] pp., frontispiece portrait of Hood, plates, illustrations. 4to, original three-quarter black leather over gilt-lettered maroon pebbled cloth. Very fine. Tipped in: (1) Speech of Hon. James P. Buchanan of Texas in the House of Representatives, March 24, 1916 (Washington: GPO, 1916), 4 pp.; and (2) folded page from the Houston Chronicle with the headline article "Chilton's Defense of Jefferson Davis in reply to 'Cyclone.'" Presentation inscription: "Hon. J. P. Buchanan, Member of Congress from Texas, Washington, D.C. With a deep sense of gratitude from every living United Confederate Veteran, Son and Daughter of the Confederacy and all lovers of the sacred History of the South and good men and women all throughout this great nation of ours-and particularly in the name of Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia-this book is presented to the noble champion of the illustrious President of the Southern Confederacy in Halls of Congress. By the Author, T. B. Chilton, Houston, Texas, April 2nd, 1916."
        First edition. Howes C386. Rader 769. Very scarce work on the legendary unit, of which Charles Ramsdell remarked: "It is safe to say that no single brigade on either side in the Civil War gained greater or more merited fame than Hood's Texas Brigade." See The Handbook of Texas Online (Hood's Texas Brigade).
($600-1,200)

CISNEROS RARITY

75. [CISNEROS, José (illustrator)]. ALCÁZAR DE VELASCO, A. & Cleofas Calleros. Historia del templo de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Juárez: Típográfíca Internacíonal, 1953. 183 [3] pp. (all text pages within red decorative borders), 27 plates (10 by Cisneros, 10 facsimiles, 7 photographs), photograph of authors tipped onto p. 1. Folio, original full calf binding by Felipe Montilla Duarte with ornate gilt decorative design on covers, gilt spine with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, and burgundy silk moiré endpapers. Hand-written errata on p. 1. Signed by authors. Unnumbered presentation copy to Pat and Mary Kaye Hooker signed by Cisneros. Mint condition.
        First edition, limited edition (58 copies). Introduction by Carlos C. Castañeda. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros) 11.
($500-1,000)