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1. [ALAMO]. Le Courrier des États-Unis, Journal Politique et Litteraire. Vol. IX, No. 11. New York, April 6, 1836. 4 pp. (pp. 61-64), printed in 3 columns, large engraving of American eagle at top, folio (42.5 x 28.8 cm), disbound. Early account of the Battle of the Alamo in French. Among other national and international news in this widely distributed French-language newspaper published in New York, there is prominently featured on the front page in the middle of the second column a news story concerning developments in San Antonio and at the Alamo, which is said to be under siege and resisting Mexican surrender demands. Immediately following is yet another breaking news story which arrived on March 2, stating that Travis with only 150 men has beaten back a Mexican attack. It also reports that Fannin with 325 men is on his on his way from Goliad, a report that was obviously false. ($150-300) More>>
2. [ARANSAS HARBOR]. Tamper Bay Hotel. City of Aransas Harbor, Texas, C. L. Dignowity, Proprietor. W. D. Keith, Manager, Meals at all hours, day and night. Lunch between Meals. Rates, $16 per day; will take $1 per day. Special rates to officeseekers, owing to the high tariff [cover title]. [San Antonio, ca. 1896]. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Creased where formerly folded with short separations (no losses), wrappers with some browning and lightly chipped (a few minor losses), text leaves with small splits at folds and some minor chipping, especially at top (but few losses). An unusual survival of a fragile, unique, ephemeral imprint. First edition. This unique and rare promotional published at the time when speculation was rampant in the Aransas area appears to be part serious promotional and part squib. ($50-100) More>>
3. [ATLAS]. EVERTS, L[ouis] H. & CO. (publishers). Official State Atlas of Kansas [lithograph view: State Capitol, Topeka, Kan. Haskell & Wood, Arch’s. F.F. Goist Sc.] Compiled from Government Surveys, County Records and Personal Investigations [on verso of title page] Copyright, 1887, L. H. Everts & Co. Philadelphia: H. H. Everts & Co., 1887. 300 leaves consisting of 70 unnumbered pages of text, 185 unnumbered pages of plates (uncolored lithograph views, scenes, interiors, ranches, livestock, architecture, etc.) and pagination sequence reading: [2, title page], 1-158, 160-161, 164-165, 167-339 [1, blank] (mostly pages of hand-colored maps, 843 maps on 316 pages, not including Riverside Stock Farm map on page with view), 25 inserted hand-colored lithograph folding maps. Folio (45.5 x 39.5 cm), original burgundy pebble cloth gilt lettered on upper cover (The Official Atlas of Kansas 1887), rebacked and re-cornered in new tan cloth, new endpapers, edges sprinkled. First edition of the first atlas of Kansas, and one of the largest nineteenth-century atlases for any state in the U.S. LeGear, United States Atlases L1368. Phillips, Atlases 1710. Reese, Six Score 83: “These atlases were designed so that pages could be tipped in. I doubt that any two copies are exactly alike.... This massive compilation contains a vast wealth of information on Kansas at the time of publication. Many of the views depict stock ranges, which are also located on the extremely detailed maps. There are many bird’s-eye views of towns and sights. Much of the accompanying text is devoted to listing the leading citizens of the state, their property, what kind of livestock they raise, and even what kind of fencing they use. The Everts’ atlas is an important source for much information, with illustrations existing nowhere else.” ($4,000-8,000) More>>
4. [ATLAS]. MITCHELL, S[amuel] Augustus. [cover title (issued without title)] Revised Edition. Mitchell’s School Atlas. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by S. Augustus Mitchell, in the clerk’s office of the district court of Connecticut [lower cover] The Maps Comprising Mitchell’s School Atlas, Drawn and Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell’s School Geography.... [map list]. Philadelphia, n.d. (1844). [6, text, tables, statistics] pp., 14 leaves of hand-colored maps (lithographic transfer from engraved plates), some double, maps numbered 1 to 18 (including insets), most maps dated 1839 (Map Nos. 12 and 13 dated 1840; Map No. 6 dated 1844), maps attributed to James Hamilton Young and Wellington Williams. Small folio (34 x 25 cm), original dark green sheep over tan pictorial lithograph boards. First revised edition of Mitchell’s School Atlas, the original edition first published in 1839 (Phillips, Atlases 6085), with many editions and revisions following. Rumsey (523) cites the very rare first edition, noting the first edition has date of 1839 in roman numerals on upper cover, sixteen numbered maps on twelve pages, and with all maps engraved, rather than lithographed as in the present atlas. American Imprints 1840-4699. Karpinski, Maps of Famous Cartographers Depicting North America, #415 (citing the Michigan map) & p. 329: “In view of the fact of compulsory public education practically through out America the widest circulation of any published maps is doubtless attained by those maps appearing in the text-books used in the public schools. In large measure the books were destroyed by the pupils in use. The somewhat ephemeral character of these publications accounts also for their rapid disappearance.... Doubtless the two authors whose works enjoyed the largest continued use and the widest circulation were the school atlases and geographies of S. Augustus Mitchell and those of James Monteith.... These school text-books deserve most careful attention in any study of the spread of ideas by the printed pages. The school atlas or geography has been the one book almost certain to be found in every home where there is a child of school age. Doubtless in the early days when citizens of the Eastern States were considering migration to the Middle West these works were the ones most frequently consulted.” ($250-500) More>>
5. [ATLAS]. NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION (1872-1876). Joint Maps of the Northern Boundary of the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains. United States Northern Boundary Commission, Archibald Campbell, Esq., Commissioner. W. J. Twining, Capt. of Engrs. U.S.A. Chief Astronomer. Her Majesty’s North American Boundary Commission, D.R. Cameron, Maj. Royal Art. Commissioner S. Anderson, Capt. Royal Engrs. Chief Astronomer [lithograph pictorial title on tinted ground with illustration of Chief Mountain in present Glacier National Park, Montana]. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878]. 26 leaves (lithographs on tinted grounds): Pictorial title, index map leaf, 24 leaves of maps numbered I to XXIV showing the U.S.-Canada boundary line as it was established by the Joint Commission (each sheet 40.2 x 59 cm). Oblong folio (40.8 x 60 cm), original dark brown roan over brown lithograph boards with title in black on upper cover. First edition. Howell 52:64. Phillips, Atlases 1264. Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 7, pp. 54-55. This very scarce atlas supplements the official reports of the Commission’s work. This series of large-scale (one inch equals two miles), highly detailed maps documents the Canada-U.S. border from Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota to the summit of Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide. They are not to be confused with the seven sheets that appeared in the official government report, which had a scale of only one inch to eight miles, and which were issued folded into the report (see Wheat #1878). ($600-1,200) More>>
6. [ATLAS]. ROGERS, Henry Darwin & A[lexander] Keith Johnston. Atlas of the United States of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica. On a Uniform Scale. From the Most Recent State Documents, Marine Surveys, and Unpublished Materials. With Plans of the Principal Cities and Sea-Ports, and an Introductory Essay on the Physical Geography, Products, and Resources of North America. London: Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross, S.W. [The Authors Reserve the Right of Translation.], n.d. [1857]. 20 pp., 30 lithograph maps with original hand coloring (24 of which are folded with sheet size measuring 36.5 x 42.5 cm; half sheet maps measure 36.5 x 25 cm; map of Charleston on pastedown, neat line to neat line measuring 25 x 19.2 cm). Folio, original blind-embossed purple cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover (Atlas Of The United States, British & Central America: By Prof. Rogers & A. Keith Johnston). Expertly rebacked in sympathetic cloth, original endsheets retained. First edition. Day, Maps of Texas, pp. 68-69 (listing the general map of the U.S. [Map 2 above], but not the separate map of Texas [Map 17 above]). LeGear, United States Atlases L41. Phillips, Atlases 3670. Sabin 62699. Rumsey 3825: “Unusual collaboration between a Scot (Johnston), an American (Rogers), and an Englishman (Stanford). The maps are all on a scale of 54.5 miles to one inch, and are very well executed. They are derived from the large Map of The United States, British & Central America, by Rogers and Johnston, 1857 [Rumsey 4390]. The western U.S. maps show the routes of the proposed Pacific Railroad. Rogers probably wrote the descriptive text. Johnston engraved and drew the maps-these maps are perhaps the best examples of Scottish highly detailed mapmaking applied to the western territories and states, in the pre-Civil War period.” ($6,000-$10,000) More>>
7. [ATLAS]. VÁZQUEZ, Francisco (translator). Atlas elementar. Metodo nuevo, breve, facil y demostrativo para aprender la geografía por sí mismo, ó enseñarla aun á los niños. Con XXII. Mapas iluminados. Un tratado adjunto de la esfera, y las láminas correspondientes, en que se explican claramente los movimientos de los astros, los systémas antiguos y modernos del universo, el use de los globos y las medidas geográficas. Traducido, con las variaciones y adiciones mas precisas, para la clara expresion de las idéas, por el P. D. Francisco Vazquez, C. R. Madrid: En la Oficina de Pantaleon Aznar, Carrera de San Gerónymo, 1786. [10], 222 pp. + [2], 44, [2] pp., 24 unattributed folded copper-engraved maps with original outline and shading in green and pink, plate size of maps approximately 11.5 x 15 cm, with slight variations). 2 vols. in one, 8vo (20.3 x 14.7 cm), later half blue mottled sheep over blue cloth, dark blue gilt-lettered sheep spine label with initials F.L. y L. in gilt at foot of spine. First Spanish edition. Palau 19382 & 353677 (noting Madrid editions in 1795 and 1828, and Mexican editions in 1806 and 1819). The atlas originally was issued in French as Atlas des enfans, ou, méthode nouvelle, courte, facile et demonstrative, pour apprendre la geógraphie (Amsterdam: J. H. Schneider, 1760), with maps attributed to Christiaan Sepp. ($500-1,000) More>>
8. [ATLAS]. [WILKES EXPEDITION]. UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION (1838-1842). WILKES, Charles. Atlas. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. By Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition, Member of the American Philosophical Society, etc. In Five Volumes, and an Atlas. [title verso]: Entered...1844, By Charles Wilkes...District of Columbia. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. [6] pp., 5 copper-engraved maps on bank note paper (see list following). Folio, original black ribbed cloth, covers blind-embossed, lettered in gilt on upper cover (Atlas U.S. Exploring Expedition), gilt eagle and sailing ship on lower cover, spine gilt lettered (U.S. Exploring Expedition. Vol. 6). Atlas only.Tweney, Washington 89 #83: “The Atlas is much sought by collectors.” Second edition, first issue of the atlas to accompany Lea & Blanchard unofficial edition of Charles Wilkes’ 1845 Narrative; the atlas was printed in an edition of 150 copies supplied to Wilkes for presentation and sale. Haskell 17A. This edition was preceded by the official edition of 1844, which was printed in 100 copies, of which 25 were destroyed by fire (Haskell #1, p. 34), and replaced by the 1845 edition, which this atlas accompanied. For the entire work, see: Cowan I, pp. 248-249n. Cowan II, p. 683. Ferguson, Australia 4209. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1573. Hill (II) #1866. Howes W414. Rosove, Antarctica 353. Streeter Sale 3324. An early American exploring expedition conducted almost exclusively at sea, this voyage had numerous accomplishments to its credit, including mapping nearly three hundred islands, totally exploring the American Northwest Coast, and establishing the true nature of Antarctica as a continent. ($3,000-5,000) More>>
9. [ATLAS]. YAGGY, [Levi Walter]. Yaggy’s Geographical Study Comprising Physical Political Geological and Astronomical Geography. Chicago: Western Publishing House, 1887. Cartographic pedagogical device. 19 chromolithograph plates and maps (including 5 translucent tissue underlays), one relief map. Within folding case (overall 158 x 96 cm), constructed of brown cloth over wood, with flap (affixed to inner flap is printed slip entitled Directions for Opening the Study; 22.7 x 10 cm), metal moveable clamping hardware for sheets in lower portfolio, two moveable metal props affixed to upper case, remains of original leather straps, two metal clasps. First edition of a remarkable example of large-format chromolithography. Yaggy published another version of this work in 1893, but it was somewhat different, consisting of large chromo plates only (and different from the present 1887 plates). This work was issued at a time when U.S. education was flourishing and undergoing numerous changes in both teacher training and student education, as the profession moved towards increasing professionalism. Combining as it does science and art, this portfolio is practically a unique pedagogical tool equalled by few other examples. Undoubtedly few students and few teachers had ever seen such a spectacular teaching tool before this one was published. Yaggy (d. ca. 1912) was a publisher and prolific author who wrote on many topics, in addition to educational themes. ($4,000-8,000) More>>
10. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. SPAIN. LAWS (April 15, 1820). [Decree putting back in force previous decrees and regulations]. [At top] D Joaquín de Arredondo Mioño, Pelegrín, Bravo de Hoyos y Venero, Caballero de la Orden de Calatrava.... [text commences] Por el Ministerio de la Governación de Ultramar se me ha dirijdo la Real Orden del tenor siguiente.... Los Decretos que las Cortes generales y extraordinarias, y tambien ordinarias.... [Monterrey, October 17, 1820]. Folio broadside. Creased where formerly folded, two edges lightly browned and wrinkled, otherwise very good. Signed by Joaquín de Arredondo with his ink paraph, and in full in ink by Rafael Gonzáles (1789-1857), a Tejano born in San Fernando de Béxar, who served as governor of Coahuila y Tejas during 1824-1826. Monterrey edition of a Spanish decree issued by King Ferdinand VII. This printing is a very early imprint by Samuel Bangs. Jenkins, Bangs 21. Spell 28. ($1,200-2,400) More>>
11. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. MEXICO (Empire). El Comandante General Ynterino de Provincias Internas de Oriente a las tropas de la del Nuevo Santander. [facing double arrows] [text commences] Soldados: La Patria que ha puesto en vuestras manos las armas para que la defendais de toda clase de enemigos, exige de vosotros el auxilio de que la socorrais. El Señor Brigadier D. Felipe de la Garza vuestro Gefe por acaloramiento à que dió lugar conceptos equivocados, os há llamado en su defenza, no para defender el precioso dón de la Libertad, sino para substraerse de la obediencia á las determinaciones de S. M. I. de Señor Don Agustin Primero. [Signed in print at end] Lopez. N.p., n.d. [Saltillo, November 1822?]. Broadside on laid paper (31.2 x 21.5 cm). First edition. Jenkins, Bangs 182: “This broadside carries no date or place of publication, but it is printed in Bangs type fonts with his facing pair of arrows after the heading... It exhorts the troops to come back to the side of the government and let the rule of law, not arms, control the situation lest the ‘inexorable sword of the law come down upon you.’” Not in Spell. ($500-1,000) More>>
12. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. MEXICO (Empire). Manifiesto de S. M. El Emperador [facing double arrows] Habitantes del Imperio: El general á quien encargué el mando de las tropas que debian ocupar á Veracruz....México febrero 9 de 1823. Agustin. Jose Manuel de Herrera. [Colophon] Reimpreso en el Saltillo á 19 de Febrero de 1823. Imprenta de la Comandancia General de Oriente Jose Manuel Bangs, Impresor. Broadside on laid paper with watermark (29 x 21.2 cm). Jenkins, Bangs 164: “Proclamation issued by the emperor in Mexico City on February 9, 1823, declaring that the revolution has ended, although there are still disturbances in Veracruz. Presents some peace proposals to the governor of Veracruz that are actually more of a veiled threat.” Not in Spell. Samuel Bangs (ca. 1798-1854) accompanied the Mina expedition as printer and created the first imprints west of the Louisiana Purchase, in Texas, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and Coahuila. ($500-1,000) More>>
13. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. COAHUILA Y TEJAS. CONGRESO GENERAL. [Statement supporting the Plan of Jalapa.] [At top] Sesión Estraordinaria del dia treinta y uno de Diciembre de 1829. [Saltillo, ca. January 3, 1830]. Folio broadside. Creased where formerly folded, otherwise very fine. First edition. Jenkins, Bangs 322. Not in Spell. By this statement, the Congress adheres the state to the Plan of Jalapa (also known as the “Plan del Ejército de reserva”), a revolt by Santa-Anna and others against President Vicente Guerrero, who was forced to resign and soon executed. He was succeeded by Santa-Anna himself. Here the state threatens anyone who actively opposes this plan with execution merely upon an accusation. The Plan of Jalapa instituted a centralist administration. This change of power resulted in leaders in Mexico City becoming more suspicious of the United States and of Anglo colonists in Texas, thirty thousand of whom had arrived in Texas by the year this decree was printed by Bangs. The imposition of a centralist form of government was among the irritants eventually leading the Texans to revolt against Mexico. ($750-1,500) More>>
14. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. MEXICO (Republic). Circular letter (May 7, 1830). [Circular letter asking cooperation in collecting natural history specimens to form a national collection and to create a new map of Mexico, with instructions for collecting specimens]. [At top] Gobierno Supremo del Estado Libre de Coahuila y Tejas. [text commences] El Ecsmo Sr. Ministro de Estado y de Relaciones, con fecha 7 de Mayo procsimo pasado me dice lo que sigue.... [Saltillo: Samuel Bangs, 1830]. [6] pp., folio. Creased where formerly folded, small triangular piece wanting from left blank margin, otherwise very good. Coahuilatecan edition of a federal decree. Jenkins, Bangs 371: “This is the last known imprint of Bangs in Coahuila.” Not in Spell. Vice-President Alemán laments the poor state of physical knowledge about the country and urges those who are in a position to do so to cooperate in collecting specimens of natural history. He is especially concerned with mineral products and the output of mines. He also requests that persons who have any maps of any state of any type send him copies of them, since the entire republic is not correctly mapped and they are needed to assist with that effort. Finally, he asks for samples of local crafts and industrial objects so that they may be sent to the capital to form part of a more extensive collection there. ($600-1,200) More>>
15. [BANGS, Samuel (printer)]. TAMAULIPAS (Mexican State). [Decree of December 8, 1835, outlining troops to be raised to defend the republic against the Texas rebels]. [At top] Gobierno del Departamento de Tamaulipas. Circular. [text commences] El Supremo Gobierno Nacional empeñado justamente en sosteuer[sic] integro el territorio de la República....[Ciudad Victoria: Samuel Bangs, 1835]. Folio broadside. Very rare Bangs imprint with riveting content on the Texas Revolution. First edition. Streeter 845.1. Not in Jenkins (Bangs) or Spell. This decree concerns implementing in the state a national decree that called for the raising of troops to fight against the Texans, here referred to as “los indignos colonos.” The state is apparently alarmed by Stephen F. Austin and José Antonio Mexía's schemes, which included the invasion of Matamoros, a plan Austin himself approved in a letter to the President of the Consultation, November 5, 1835 (Austin Papers, Vol. III, p. 240). In that letter supporting Mexía's plans, Austin goes on to say: "In short we are in a war, in which the objects of our enemies is our total extermination. It is a matter of life and death-there is no medium or middle course left-none at all...." In 1839, José Antonio Mexía (1800-1839), a Mexican who supported the federalism for which the Texans fought, upon orders of Santa-Anna faced a firing squad for unpardonable treason in bringing foreign adventurers into the country. See Handbook of Texas Online: José Antonio Mexía. ($2,000-4,000) More>>
16. BENNET, Miles Squier. Original autograph journal (signed M.S.B. on first page) of his life in early Texas, mostly in Dewitt Colony (Gonzales area), also in San Antonio and excursions to the west. May 25, 1838–May 27, 1854. 52 pages (including 2 blank) on 24 mostly quarto sheets (2 are 4-page folded folio). Preserved in a brown morocco, gilt-lettered and decorated clamshell case. The 50 journal pages span the years from his arrival in Texas in 1838 at age 20 to life as an established farmer on the Guadalupe River in 1854. Miles S. Bennet (1818-1903) appears to have been a compulsive journal maker. As he writes on October 12, 1838: “Time is short and soon passes away, and once gone is gone forever, By keeping an exact account of each day of ones life, one lives longer, that is, he does not dream away so much of his existence, he will have the opportunity of viewing the follies of each day and avoiding them in future, and in keeping the record he will have an history of his own life to which he can refer in future days. I regret that I did not begin my Diary several years ago....” Especially in the earlier years, Bennet’s journal has many interesting notes and narratives about events in early Texas. ($3,000-6,000) More>>
17. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. BRAZOS RIVER CHANNEL & DOCK COMPANY. Velasco the First & Only Deep Water Port on the Coast of Texas. The Commercial Hope of the Trans-Mississippi. Louis Giraud.... [St. Louis: Gast, ca. 1892]. Lithograph with original color. 60.5 x 91.7 cm. Very rare, large, and colorful promotional of Velasco, with bird's eye view of the Velasco area and other images on recto, and breathless, boosterism text on verso, including: “Velasco, the Liverpool of the Trans-Mississippi.” Not in Reps, Day, or other sources. The present imprint was part of the campaign to promote Velasco’s deepwater port, which ran to a depth of 17-1/2 feet. By 1892 over a million dollars worth of lots had been sold, and the town and region flourished, with railroad connections and a bustling shipping center. ($1,500-3,000) More>>
18 [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph Britton & Jacques Joseph Rey] (lithographers). Coloma, 1857. El Dorado County, California. First discovery of Gold in Cal. was made at this place early in February 1848 by Jas. Marshall & P. L. Wimmer, in the Tailrace of Sutters Saw mill, situated at the extreme lower end of the Town. The Mill was torn down in 1856. [symbol, cross in small circle, with hook at top] Place where Sutters mill stood. [above image] Kuchel & Dresels California Views. [below image] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857 by Kuchel & Dresel in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northn District of Cal. N.p., n.d. [San Francisco, ca. 1857]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights. Image only: 20.3 x 37 cm. Image including title and caption above: 27 x 37 cm. Overall sheet size: 42 x 63.3 cm. Early view of Coloma. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America #75 (the version with vignettes is Reps #74). Within Reps’ sequence of Coloma views, this is the third listed, although in fact, according to Reps’s text, it is the first Kuchel & Dresel version. The settlement of Coloma rapidly grew up around Sutter’s Mill, which by the time of this lithograph had already been demolished. Despite a brief period of prosperity and growth, the town finally faded away to become a ghost town. The only remnants of it are now incorporated into Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park. ($10,000-20,000) More>>
19. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph Britton & Jacques Joseph Rey] (lithographers). French Bar Siskiyou Co. [above image] Kuchel & Dresels Cala. Views. N.p., n.d. [San Francisco, ca. 1857]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights. Image area: 22.2 x 27.2 cm. Image including title below and caption above: 28 x 27.2 cm. Overall sheet size: 43.5 x 55.1 cm. makers of Urban America #94). Peters, California on Stone, p. 143. Watson, California in the Fifties, Plate 9. Baird (California Pictorial Letter Sheets) lists no view of French Bar, nor is any copyright notice documented by Greenwood, California Imprints 1833-1862, Appendix A (Copyrights). French Bar was one of the communities that sprang up in the area formed by the Scott River, which was exploited by John W. Scott in the early 1850s. It was one of many such settlements along the river. “French Bar and the camps grouped about it in the Scott river gorge produced bountifully. Even as late as 1857 when Kuchel & Dresel visited the spot, the great water wheels were still pumping dry the deep diggings in the stream bed so that the last of the gold could be discovered” (Watson). Apparently French Bar is mostly lost to history except via this beautiful print. ($7,500-15,000) More>>
20. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph] Britton & [Jacques Joseph] Rey (lithographers). Placerville, El Dorado County. [below lower neat line] Printed by Britton & Rey | Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856 by Davis & Roy, in the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Drawn from Nature & on Stone by Kuchel & Dresel 176 Clay St S F. [San Francisco: Davis & Roy, ca. 1856]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights, image within beige frame border (upper corners rounded). Image only: 30.3 x 51.5 cm. Image including title and text below: 34.5 x 52.2 cm. Image area including frame border: 31.2 x 52.2 cm. Overall sheet size: 37.5 x 54.1 cm. This is the first large view of Placerville. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America #188 (version with vignettes is Reps #187). Greenwood, California Imprints 1833-1862, Appendix A (Copyrights), p. 489 (#93). Peters, California on Stone, p. 145. Watson, California in the Fifties, Plate 21. Placerville, in modern-day El Dorado County, was settled in 1848 when ranchero William Daylor came to the area from Sutter’s Fort. Known variously as Dry Diggings and Hangtown, the town prospered, especially after the rich ore strike in Nevada City, which turned it into a major supply point for traffic and supplies going east. The present lithograph is particularly important because the town was virtually destroyed this same year by a fire in early July, one of three that would occur in 1856. Thus, the view is of a town that was wiped out shortly after this image was published. ($10,000-20,000) More>>
21. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph] Britton & [Jacques Joseph] Rey (lithographers). Union, Humboldt County, Cal. 1857. [above image] Kuchel & Dresels’ California Views. [below image] Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1857, by Kuchel & Dresel in the Clerks’ Office of the U.S. District Court, for the N. Dist. of Cal. N.p., n.d. [San Francisco, ca. 1857]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights. Image only: 20.5 x 37.3 cm. Image including title and caption above: 26 x 37.3 cm. Overall sheet size: 37.5 x 64 cm. Not in Reps (Views and Viewmakers of Urban America), although he lists two other Kuchel & Dresel views of Union (later renamed Arcata) with slightly different titles, one with vignettes and the other without (Reps #49 & #50). Founded by the Union Company early in 1850, Union was the first significant town on Humboldt Bay and prospered as a port serving the gold mines in the mountains to the east. In 1860 the name was changed to Arcata, which is its modern-day name. ($6,000-12,000) More>>
22. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph] Britton & [Jacques Joseph] Rey (lithographers). Weaverville, 1856, Trinity County, California. [below lower neat line] Drawn from Nature & on Stone by Kuchel & Dresel, 176 Clay St. S F. | Printed by Britton & Rey. N.p., n.d. [San Francisco, ca. 1856]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights image within beige frame border (upper corners rounded). Image only: 30.5 x 51.7 cm. Image including title and frame border: 36.5 x 53.3 cm. Image area including frame border: 32.3 x 53.3 cm. Overall sheet size: 49.5 x 65.5 cm. Early large-scale view of Weaverville (within Reps’ sequence of Weaverville views, this is the first listed). Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America #443 (the version with vignettes is Reps #445). A typical Old West town, Weaverville was founded in 1850 during the Gold Rush. It was noted as the home of several thousand Chinese miners. Today it is an unincorporated area of Trinity County, California, of which it is the county seat. ($10,000-20,000) More>>
23. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. KUCHEL, [Charles Conrad] & [Emil] Dresel (artists) & [Joseph] Britton & [Jacques Joseph] Rey (lithographers). Yankee Jims’, Placer County, California. [above image] Kuchel & Dresels California Views [below image] Drawn from Nature and Lith. by Kuchel & Dresel, 176 Clay St. San Francisco | Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1857 by Kuchel & Dresel in the Clerks Office in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | Printed by Britton & Rey.... N.p., n.d. [San Francisco, ca. 1857]. Lithograph on buff-toned ground, original applied white highlights. Image only: 20.3 x 36.8 cm. Image including title and caption above: 26 x 36.8 cm. Overall sheet size: 45.5 x 60.2 cm. Reps #452 (the version with vignettes is Reps #451). Within Reps’ sequence of Yankee Jim’s views, Kuchel & Dresel’s prints are the only ones listed. Peters, California on Stone, p. 146. Watson, California in the Fifties, Plate 41. No Yankee Jim’s views are listed by Baird (California Pictorial Letter Sheets). No copyright notice in Greenwood’s California Imprints 1833-1862, Appendix A (Copyrights). Although the origin of the name Yankee Jim’s is uncertain, this town prospered shortly after the discovery of gold. Watson’s three stories of how the town got its name are worth the read. In 1852, however, the town mostly burned, and although it was rebuilt, it was bypassed by the railroad, leading to its decline. The remains of the town are just north of Forest Hill. The 1861 directory for Placer County shows that almost all residents of the place were miners. ($5,000-10,000) More>>
24. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. LAWRENCE, A. B. (attributed). A History of Texas, or the Emigrant’s Guide to the New Republic, by a Resident Emigrant, Late from the United States...With a Brief Introduction by the Rev. A. B. Lawrence, of New Orleans. New York: Published by Nafis & Cornish, No. 178 Pearl-Street, 1844. [2] vii-xxii [23]-275 [1 blank] pp., engraved frontispiece bird’s eye view: City of Austin the New Capital of Texas in 1844 (image: 9.7 x 18 cm; image with caption: 10.1 x 18 cm). 12mo (19 x 11.5 cm), original full mottled sheep, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled fore-edges. First edition, third issue, with cancel title, and without the dedication leaf to David Burnet. The first issue was published by William W. Allen at New York in 1840 under title Texas in 1840, or The Emigrant’s Guide to the New Republic; being the Result of Observation, Enquiry and Travel in That Beautiful Country. Subsequent issues of the book came out in 1842, 1844 (present issue), and 1845 (Streeter 1361A-C), but the view of Austin appears in only two editions. The first edition of the view is as follows: City of Austin the New Capital of Texas in January 1. 1840 [lower left] Drawn by Edward Hall [lower right] Lithog by J. Lowe (image: 9.7 x 18.3 cm; image with caption: 10.2 x 18.3 cm). The second edition of the plate is as indicated in preceding paragraph. There is still conjecture on the media of both editions, but the first edition is generally thought to be a lithograph, and the present second edition is engraved. Streeter 1361B: “An important Texas book.” Authorship is attributed to Rev. A. B. Lawrence, editor of the New Orleans Presbyterian. ($750-1,500) More>>
25. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. MACMASTER, J. D. & COMPANY. Birdseye View of Abilene The Future Capital of Kansas [in image lower center below primary view] St. L. J. H. Ketcheson [center left of primary view] Compliments of J. D. MacMaster & Co. Real Estate and Loan Brokers Dealer in Ranches Farms Business and Suburban City Property California Orange Lands. Arkansas Timber Lands. Missouri Coal Lands and General Brokers in Real Estate Abilene Kansas F. J. Baker [below primary image] A general invitation is extended to correspond with J. D. MacMaster & Co. For Any Information Desired Pertaining to Kansas and the Great West Abilene Central Land Cos Property.... [13 views and 2 portraits surrounding image]. [St. Louis: J. H. Ketcheson for the J. D. MacMaster Real Estate Company, ca. 1895]. Lithograph bird’s-eye view printed in brown, neat line to neat line: 55.5 x 78.2 cm. First edition? Not in Reps. In this highly detailed view of an expanding Abilene, the opportunities for the development of real estate capital are emphasized by the two real estate promoters (G. W. C. Rohrer and J. D. MacMaster) whose mustachioed portraits are prominently displayed at top center. ($2,000-4,000) More>>
26. BLANCHARD, [Henri] P[ierre Léon Pharamond], Adrien Dauzats & [Louis] E[ugène] Maissin. San Juan de Ulùa ou relation de l’expédition française au Méxique, sous les ordres de M. le Contre-Amiral Baudin; par MM. P. Blanchard et A. Dauzats. Suivi de notes et documents, et d’un aperçu général sur l’état actuel du Texas, par M.E. Maissin, Lieutenant de vaisseau, aide-de-camp de l’amiral Baudin. Publié par ordre du roi, sous les auspices de M. Le Baron Tupinier, alors Ministre de la Marine [verso of half title] A. Pihan de la Forest, Imp. de la Cour de cassation, Rue des Noyers, 37]. Paris: Chez Gide, Editeur, rue de Seine S.-G. 6 bis, 1839. vii [1 blank], 591 [1 blank] pp., 18 plates engraved on India-proof paper and mounted (as issued) with views of the West Indies and Mexico, scenes from the expedition and nautical subjects, numerous text engravings of similar subjects. 4to (30 x 20 cm), original half tan roan over purple and rose mottled boards, original green marbled endpapers, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering. First edition, large paper copy. Bancroft, Mexico V, p. 204: “The most exhaustive work on [the Pastry War] episode.” Brunet I, col. 963. Clark, Old South III:202: “Description of Pensacola Bay, fortifications, and the town, which the ship visited on July 1, 1839.” Graff 323. Howes B507. Palau 30412 (noting some copies are printed on china paper and/or with colored plates). Raines, p. 145. Sabin 5832: “Published at 45fr., or without vignettes, 25fr.” The engraved plates printed on thin, high-quality India proof paper are an unusual medium, providing a finer image with more depth than on ordinary paper. Because the technique of printing on India proof paper is extremely time-consuming, expensive, and challenging, engravings were seldom printed in this way. ($400-800) More>>
27. [BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. COMISIÓN DE LA PESQUISIDORA DE LA FRONTERA DEL NORDESTE. Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas. Translated from the Official Edition Made in Mexico. New York: Baker & Goodwin, Printers, 1875. viii, [3]–443, [1 blank] pp. (p. 296 numbered 96), 3 folding lithograph maps with original color outlining or shading. 8vo (22.4 x 15 cm), original brown cloth spine over beige printed wrappers. First American edition and first edition in English of one of the most important borderlands reports (published the same year in Mexico, in Spanish). This report has been compared to the Pichardo treatise for its importance to Texas and borderlands history. Adams, Guns 1108. Adams, Herd 558 & 2264. Day, Maps of Texas, p. 87. Decker 37:340. Graff 2765. Eberstadt 122:97 (no mention of maps). Howes I32 (see also T143). Palau 119576–8. Tate, The Indians of Texas 2469. This report can be found from time to time, but seldom with the important maps, particularly the superb large-scale folding map, which delineates the Rio Grande from its mouth to the Big Bend region, with portions of Texas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. This exceedingly rare map is among the most important maps for Texas and borderlands history in the nineteenth century. The incredible detail includes Mexican and U.S. ranches along the Rio Grande, states, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, roads, forts, lakes, and landmarks. ($2,500-5,000) More>>
28. [BORDERLANDS]. [PANCHO VILLA & THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION]. U.S. ARMY. Wanted! More Men for Army with Delaware Troops to Serve in Mexico Good Pay and Allowances All Expenses Paid by U.S. Government Good Chance to See the World and Serve Your Country. Apply to Recruiting Office Armory, Dover Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. N.p., n.d. [Dover, 1916]. Broadside (22. x 15.2 cm), text within border composed of miniature U.S. flags. Right blank margin and upper right blank corner chipped with small losses (not affecting text or border), otherwise a fine copy of a fragile item printed on cheap paper. The Punitive Expedition was launched by the United States in retaliation for the 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, by Pancho Villa. Despite a large campaign of several thousand men and the use of aircraft, General John J. Pershing’s force was unable for various reasons to capture Villa, and in fact, came into conflict with regular Mexican troops. On the whole, the expedition was a failure. ($100-300) More>>
29. BURNET, David Gouverneur. Autograph letter signed, to his brother Staats G. Burnet, in care of Robinson & Hartshorne Merchants in New York, dated from Port Spain, Trinidad, July 4, 1807. 6 pp. plus integral address leaf, laid paper, 4to (30 x 23.5 cm). Creased where formerly folded, a few small voids affecting a few letters, moderate staining (mainly affecting last leaf and integral address). Here is a fascinating, apparently unknown letter illuminating an obscure phase of the early life of David G. Burnet (1788-1870), speculator, lawyer, politician, and firebrand soldier of fortune, who came to Texas in 1817, subsequently obtained an empresario grant, and served as first interim president of the Republic of Texas during the pivotal time from March 17 to October 22, 1836. Burnet wrote this letter when he was with Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez’ 1806-1807 expedition to Caracas, Venezuela, in his ill-fated attempt to liberate the country. Burnet rails against political developments in England that might thwart Miranda and in the most dramatic terms expresses his hatred of the Spanish hold on its American possessions and his desire for the English nation to break the Spanish tyranny. This extraordinary letter documents yet another instance in Burnet’s life wherein his designs and hopes were frustrated, a theme that seemed to pervade his entire life. Burnet’s inflamed passion for liberating South America stands in odd contrast to his reluctance to seek the same type of independence for Texas. An important letter written by the eventual first President of the Republic of Texas. ($2,000-4,000) More>>
30. [CALIFORNIA]. [OLD TOWN PASADENA: CASTLE GREEN & HOTEL GREEN COMPLEX]. Anonymous untitled oversize chromolithograph of the resort in Old Town Pasadena, California. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1903]. Image size: 32 x 118.5 cm. Overall sheet size: 36 x 122 cm. Other than a few minor nicks and short tears to blank margins, a very fine, brilliant copy. The image offers a grand view of the lavish resort-hotel complex with its rambling red-tiled architecture blended from Spanish, Moorish, Victorian, and other stylistic elements incorporating domes, arches, pillars, balconies, and verandahs. A transition in transportation modes is documented in the presence of horse-drawn carriages and early open automobiles puffing out little streams of white smoke. Many people are milling about, attired in fancy late Victorian garb. A landmark of Old Town Pasadena architecture, the complex was built between 1898 and 1903 to cater to easterners and others wishing to escape winter rigors. ($300-500) More>>
31. [CALIFORNIA MISSIONS]. ZERTAJE, Juan José. Letter in secretarial hand but signed by Zertaje, to Fray José Señán, President of the California missions and missionary at San Buenaventura. San Blas, March 3, 1813. 2 pp., 8vo (21 x 15 cm), on laid paper, watermark of crest. Sent aboard the frigate Flora commanded by Captain Nicolás Noé, the letter provides an accounting of expenditures in favor of mission San Buenaventura, reports on the unavailability of lead for bells, and remits an accounting by Manuel de Mier y Escalante (not present) regarding tallow previously shipped from San Buenaventura to Acapulco. See: Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California [cites a March 3, 1813 letter of Zertaje on p. 202 stating some of the information in this letter]; Enrique Cárdenas de la Peña, San Blas de Nayarit ; Zephyrin Englehardt, San Buenaventura, the Mission by the Sea; José Francisco de Paula Señán, The Letters of José Señan, O.F.M., Mission San Buenaventura, 1796-1823. ($750-1,500) More>>
32. CATLIN, George. Westward Bound a Hundred Years Ago. Sketches by Tom Lea. The Pass of the North: [Carl Hertzog], 1939. 4to, original grey paper over yellow printed boards. Very fine in pristine glassine wrapper. First edition, limited edition (#28 of 115 numbered, signed copies), the knife-edge spine, with “A Hundred Years Ago” printed on upper board. Designed and illustrated by Tom Lea. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Lea) 115. Hinshaw & Lovelace, Lea 32. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 11: “One night while reading Catlin’s Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indian, Tom Lea came upon a page that struck him as particularly lyric. ‘Every paragraph asked its own page and every page its own picture.’ The result was this volume. To save money at the time of issue, only 57 books were bound (with a knife-edge spine).” A rarity of both artist Tom Lea and master printer Carl Hertzog, and a harmonious blending of their unique talents which resulted in works of superb design and quality. Tom Lea (1907-2001) who served as a World War II correspondent was a well-known historian, novelist, illustrator and Texas artist. He generally worked in isolation in El Paso, Texas. ($750-1,500) More>>
33. CHAMIZAL ARBITRATION. CASASUS, Joaquín D[emetrio]. El Chamizal: Demanda, réplica, alegato é informes presentados por el Licenciado Joaquín D. Casasus ante el tribunal de arbitraje y sentencia pronunciada por el mismo tribunal. Mexico: Eusebio Gómez de la Puente, Editor, 1911. 656, [4] pp. 4to (24 x 17 cm.), original grey printed wrappers. Contemporary ink signature of Sr. Lic. Rafael P. Garcia, 2a San José 3 Puebla. Uncommon, even in institutional holdings. First edition. Porrúa 47115. This work is a collection of the presentations made by Joaquín D. Casasus to the arbitration panel charged with deciding the Chamizal dispute and is considered his finest legal effort. ($400-800) More>>
34. CHAMIZAL ARBITRATION. Chamizal Arbitration. The Case of the United States of America before the International Boundary Commission United States-Mexico Hon. Eugene Lafleur, Presiding... With Portfolio of Maps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. 8 folded maps depicting the area of dispute. 8vo, original black cloth. Very good. First edition. Maps documenting the disputed area. ($250-500) More>>
35. [CHAMP D’ASILE]. HARTMANN, L[ouis] & [Jean-Baptiste] Millard. Le Texas, ou notice historique sur le Champ d’Asile, comprenant tout ce qui s’est passé depuis la formation jusqu’à la dissolution de cette Colonie, les causes qui l’ont amenée, et la liste de tous les Colons français, avec des renseignements utiles à leurs familles, et le plan du camp, Dédié a Messieurs les Souscripteurs en favcur [sic] des Réfugiés; par MM. Hartmann et Millard, Membres du Champ d’Asile, nouvellement de retour en France.Paris: Béguin, Béchet, Delaunay, et a Gand, Houdin, Juin 1819. [10], ix, [1], [11]-135 [1 blank] pp., folding copper-engraved frontispiece plan of the French settlement in Texas: Champ d’Asile (neat line to neat line: 16.5 x 23.8 cm). 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), recent half green and tan mottled sheep over blue and red marbled paper, gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered maroon morocco label, marbled endpapers, later lilac wrappers, marbled edges. First edition. Basic Texas Books 85. Braislin 920. Brinley Sale 4725. Eberstadt, Texas 162:386. Fifty Texas Rarities 6. Holliday 490. Howes H270. Kelsey, Engraved Prints of Texas, p. 18. Library of Congress, Texas Centennial Exhibition 62. Monaghan 792. Rader 1807. Raines, p. 109. Rich, Bibliotheca Americana Nova I:66. Sabin 30706. Sibley, Travelers in Texas 1761-1860, pp. 207-208. Streeter 1069: “This is the second of the three books relating to the Champ d’Asile published in Paris in 1819.... Le Texas, which is in the form of two diaries, the first at pages [11]-111 by Hartmann and the second, pages 112-132, by Millard, is the only one of the three to give a brief but more or less consecutive account of the founding of the colony, the life there, the retreat to Galveston, and the dispersal of the colonists to the four winds.” ($3,000-5,000) More>>
36. [CHAMP D’ASILE]. La Minerve Française. Paris: Au Bureau de la Minerve Française, February 1818-February 1820. 113 numbers in 9 vols. Vol. 1: 644 pp.; Vol. 2: 652 pp.; Vol. 3: 628 pp.; Vol. 4: 652 pp., Vol. 5: 684 pp., Vol. 6: 644 pp.; Vol. 7: 627 [1] pp.; Vol. 8: 643 [1] pp.; Vol. 9: 428 pp. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter polished tan calf over tan marbled boards, later red morocco gilt-lettered title labels, smooth spines. First edition. Hatin, Bibliographie historique et critique de la presse périodique française, pp. 342-343. This work, famous for many reasons, was the most important French publication that positively agitated the cause of the Champ d’Asile colony in Texas, towards which the editors were quite sympathetic. This publication is one of the primary sources on this ill-fated French enterprise. ($500-1,000) More>>
37. [CHILD, David Lee]. The Texan Revolution...to Which Is Added a Letter from Washington on the Annexation of Texas, and the Late Outrage in California, by Probus. [Washington, 1843]. 8vo, disbound. Scattered light to moderate foxing, otherwise fine. Scarce and important abolitionist tract concerning slavery in Texas. 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 II, p. 116. Eberstadt, Texas 162:148. 116. Howes C380. Jones, Adventures in Americana 1060. Rader 767. Sabin 12702. 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. Following these four letters is...Danger of the Annexation of Texas at the next Session of Congress--Outrage in California.... It discusses and criticizes at length the taking of Monterey by Commodore Jones in 1842 and incidentally comments adversely on our claims to Oregon.’“ ($1,000-2,000) More>>
38. [CHÍNIPAS MISSIONS]. HOLUB, Wenceslao. Autograph letter, signed twice, to Father Visitor Pedro Pablo Macida, dated at Satebó, June 11, 1764. 1 p. (with address on verso), folio (30.6 x 21 cm), laid paper, contemporary file note (of recipient?) on recto. The Jesuits who generally proselytized in the mountainous areas of Chihuahua arrived early in the seventeenth century. This text gives unusual insight into the problems of being a Catholic missionary in such a remote area where resources such as food, medicine, and proper transportation were difficult to acquire. See: Otakar Odložilík,“Czech Missionaries in New Spain” in Hispanic Historical American Review, Vol. 25, No. 4 (November 1945), pp. 424-454. ($400-800) More>>
39. COAHUILA Y TEJAS. Gaceta del Gobierno Departamental de Coahuila. Tomo 1o. Sabado 24 de Marza de 1838. No. 10.... [Saltillo, March 4, 1838]. 4 pp., folio. Except for one small fox-mark, very fine. Very rare Borderlands quasi-official newspaper. First edition. Charno, p. 295 (no clue as to issue dates, and locating only a single issue on microfilm, in the Bancroft Library-March 17, 1838).Contains an accounting summary of the state of Coahuila y Tejas, among which are expenses for the seven presidial companies who occupy both Coahuila and Texas, the Army of the North, and the extraordinary expenses for the Texas War. ($300-600) More>>
40. COAHUILA Y TEJAS (Mexican State). LAWS (January 27, 1834). [Decree extending the Lorenzo de Zavala and John McMullen’s colonization contracts for four years]. [Monclova, 1834]. Folio broadside printed on laid paper watermarked with a nude figure astride a globe holding a banner reading “La Bella Americana.” Left edge with small holes in blank left margins, light waterstain on left side, two contemporary ink numbers in upper right blank corner. First edition. Not in Streeter. Zavala (1788-1836) was an important figure in securing the freedom of Texas after he turned his back on his former friend Santa-Anna. For example, he helped draft the first Texas Constitution and was one of two Mexican signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. John McMullen (1785-1853), attempted to found a colony of Irish emigrants on an empresario grant he had been given in 1828. The settlement, known as the McMullen-McGloin colony, resulted in the founding of San Patricio. This extension is for the lands their colony was on. McMullen served in the Texas provisional government. ($200-400) More>>
41. COAHUILA AND TEXAS (Mexican State). VICE GOBERNADOR (Juan Martín de Veramendi). [Decree of February 4, 1833, providing for elections in Coahuila y Tejas under the new federal government]. El Vice-gobernador Constitucional del Estado libre independiente y soberano de Coahuila y Tejas á todos sus habitantes.... [Leona Vicario, 1833]. Broadside. Creased where formerly folded, lightly foxed at crease, otherwise fine, with official ink, rubrics and transmittal to note Béjar. First edition. Rare Northern Mexican imprint. Eberstadt, Texas 162:876. Streeter 789 (locating only his own copy, now at Yale). Streeter, The Only Located Copies of One Hundred Forty Texas Pamphlets and Broadsides 61. The subsequent abandonment of federalism by Mexico for centralism is said to be one of the major irritants leading the Texans to revolt. See Streeter 775 for a condensed essay on the labyrinthine political background. ($400-800) More>>
42. COPLEY, Josiah. Kansas and the Country Beyond.... Philadelphia, 1867. Lithograph map with original color wash: Map of the Routes of the Union Pacific Railroads with their Eastern Connections. Neat line to neat line: 37 x 96.5 cm. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Upper wrap with chipping to blank margins (old filmoplast reinforcements on wrap and spine). Map fine save for one minor spot at lower right and creasing where folded into the pamphlet. No copy of the pamphlet or map have been offered at auction for over thirty years. First edition. Adams, Herd 581.Howes C767. Modelski 591. Rader 926. Sabin 16696. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West #117 & Vol. V, Part I, pp. 209-213 (illustrating map between pp. 204-205): “Keeler’s railroad map is full of factual information, but it is also full of hope.” The map is another incarnation of Keeler’s celebrated National Map of the same year, with amplification of the railroad system. The present map is far more rare than the National Map. For more on the National Map, see Graff 2281. Howes K22. Martin & Martin 47. Phillips, America, p. 916. Streeter Sale 3077. ($2,500-5,000) More>>
43. [COSTANSÓ, Miguel]. Diario histórico de los viages de mar, y tierra hechos al norte de la California de orden del Excelentíssimo Señor Marqués de Croix, Virrey, Governador, y Capitán General de la Nueva España.... Mexico: De Orden del Excmo. Sr. Virrey, en la Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, [1770]. [2], 56 pp. (final leaf supplied in facsimile). Folio (29.2 x 20), later protective paper wrappers. This book is found on three of the lists of “The Twenty Rarest and Most Important Books Dealing with the History of California” (Bliss, Cowan & Wagner). First edition. Barrett, Baja California 591. Cowan I, pp. 56-57: “Of the utmost importance. The first book that relates exclusively to California.” Cowan II, p. 144. Doheny Sale 210. Graff 884. Hill I, p. 69; II:380. Howes C795: “Intrinsic importance and superlative rarity, combined with its status as the first book devoted entirely to California, place this item, either in Spanish or English, in the top rank of memorable and desirable California books.” This is the first printed detailed report relative to upper California written by one of the participants on the Sacred Expedition that established a permanent Spanish presence in the area. ($15,000-30,000) More>>
44. [CROCKETT, DAVID]. Collection of 21 Crockett almanacs, all in original pictorial wraps and profusely illustrated with humorous wood-engraved illustrations (many full-page). 21 vols., 8vo, each approximately 20.3 x 13 cm., all but one with original stitching, all untrimmed, some unopened. The most extensive run of Crockett almanacs offered in many decades. First editions. Grolier American Hundred 39 (citing the Nashville series): “It was the Crockett Almanacks which made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folk-lore.... Constance Rourke, Crockett’s biographer, observes that the legendary Crockett stories ‘constitute one of the earliest and perhaps the largest of our cycles of myth, and they are part of a lineage that endures to this day.” Henderson, Early American Sport, pp. 55-56. Howes C897. Phillips, American Sporting Books, pp. 18-20. See also: Oxford Companion to American Literature (Fourth Edition), p. 196. Constance Rourke, Davy Crockett (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934). ($50,000-75,000) More>>
45. DAVIS, W[illiam] W[atts] H[art]. El Gringo; or, New Mexico and Her People. New York, 1857. 13 wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece) consisting of views. 8vo, original cloth. Spine tips slightly frayed, a few spots on covers, lightly shelf worn, a few minor stains to first leaves, light scattered foxing, library markings, including small ink stamp of Newton Library on title (deaccession stamp on front free endpaper) and old paper label on spine, overall very good, tight and clean. First edition of one of the earliest full-length books on New Mexico in English. Dobie, p. 76: “Excellent on manners and customs.” Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 12 (“Western Movement—Its Literature”). Graff 1021. Howes D139. Laird, Hopi 536. Plains & Rockies IV:289. Rader 1073. Raines, p. 64: “Touches somewhat on the early exploration of the Rio Grande region of Texas.” Rittenhouse 153. Saunders 4013. Streeter Sale 437. The illustrations are one of the important features of the book, being very early views of the region executed on the spot by a trained artist. All but one are the work of Joseph Horace Eaton. ($125-250) More>>
46. DE CORDOVA, J[acob Raphael]. Texas: Her Resources and Her Public Men. A Companion for J. De Cordova’s New and Correct Map of the State of Texas.... First Edition. Philadelphia: Printed by E. Crozet, Cor. Thirteenth & Market, 1858. 371 [1, calendar] pp. 8vo (19.2 x 12.3 cm), original olive green cloth, covers blind-embossed, title in gilt on spine. Signed ink presentation in blue ink on front free endpaper: “With the best wishes of E.W. Moore.” Title page with author’s ink note: “Com E. W. Moore with the respects of The Author.” Naval hero Moore was named commander of the Republic of Texas Navy in 1839 (see Handbook of Texas Online: Edwin Ward Moore). Contemporary ink manuscript note at foot of p. 54 in author’s hand commenting on diseases of sheep. First edition, first issue. Basic Texas Books 38: “The first attempt at an encyclopedia of Texas, this work contains a wealth of still-useful material.... De Cordova, a native of Jamaica [and] one of the earliest Jewish settlers in Texas...did some of the first genuine scholarly research ever done in Texas while compiling the book, interviewing leading men, researching newspaper files, searching county court records.... The volume includes biographies, land laws, climatology, statistics, articles on railroads, the cotton industry, sheep raising, geology, schools, farming, slavery, churches, cattle, the lumber industry, gambling, and other subjects.” This work was meant to accompany the author’s distinguished map of Texas (see under De Cordova in the map section herein). ($500-1,000) More>>
47. DÍAZ CALVILLO, Juan Bautista. Sermon que en el aniversario solemne de gracias a María Santísima de los Remedios, celebrado en esta Santa Iglesia Catedral el dia 30 de octubre de 1811 por la victoria del Monte de las Cruces, predicó el P. Dr. don Juan Bautista Díaz Calvillo, Prefecto de la Doctrina Cristiana en el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri de esta corte. Con licencia. Mexico: En la Imprenta de Arizpe, 1811. [Second title on p. {61}]: Noticias para la historia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios desde el año de 1808, hasta el corriente de 1812. Ordenabalas el autor del sermon antecedente. Con licencia. Mexico: En casa de Arizpe, año de 1812. 269 [1 blank] pp., folded copper-engraved plate (untitled and unsigned, showing celestial phenomena). Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm), original limp vellum, sprinkled edges. First edition. Beristain I, p. 384. Medina, Mexico 10628. Palau 72318. Sabin 19974 (quoting Stevens: “An extraordinary volume of considerable historical interest. According to this pious author, Our Lady of Mexico, between 1808 and 1812, seems not only to have taken an active interest in the spiritual welfare of the faithful, but seems to have done her best to thwart the schemes of the rebels and republicans in the various provinces of Mexico. She set her face firmly against the spirit of Mexican independency, and became quite a politician, but always attached to the royal party. The pious political frauds contained in this volume must ever give it a prominent place among the books relating to the history of the Mexican Revolution.” ($750-1,500) More>>
48. DICK DOWLING CAMP NO. 197. UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Confederate Gray Book, Dick Dowling Camp No. 197. United Confederate Veterans. Houston, Texas Forty-Three Defeated Fifteen Thousand at Sabine Pass, Texas [wrapper title]. [Houston, Texas: The Urban Press, ca. 1908]. [84] pp., numerous text illustrations (portraits, statuary, architecture, pictorial ads, many being photographs by George Beach). 8vo (23.4 x 15.3 cm), original tan printed wrappers. First edition. The occasion for issuing this scarce pamphlet is unclear. Dowling’s death had occurred forty-one years before, and the monument to his memory had been erected in 1905 in Houston. As the photograph of “The Spirit of the Confederacy” monument and a reference to the Taft’s election as President would imply, the publication probably dates from around 1908, the year in which the monument was erected and Taft elected. No clear theme, however, emerges from the text. Richard William Dowling (1838-1867), who is lionized in this publication, emigrated from Ireland to New Orleans, whence he made his way to Texas around 1850. He almost instantly became a business success in Houston by opening a series of saloons. He became famous, however, because of his command of gunnery, which earned accolades during the Civil War. ($150-300) More>>
49. FERNÁNDEZ DE LIZARDI, José Joaquín. Fabulas del Pensador Mexicano [engraved title]. Mexico: Imprenta de Altamirano, 1831. Engraved illustrated upper wrapper, [2], 103, [3] pp., 39 (of 40; lacking plate 27) unattributed copper-engraved plates illustrating the fables printed in bistre (including engraved wrapper) by José Mariano Torreblanca. 12mo (15 x 10 cm), later plain papers wrappers with contemporary endleaves preserved. Second edition. González Obregon, Lizardi, p. 61. Mathes, La Ilustración en México colonial, p. 139: “Fine, delicate line exemplified the work of José Mariano Torreblanca.” Palau 89081. Romero de Terreros, Grabados y grabadores in la Nueva España, pp. 543-544 (Torreblanca). Porrúa 6793. Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827) was probably the most prolific and important writer of his time in Mexico and Latin America. ($1,000-2,000) More>>
50. FILISOLA, Vicente. Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas, por el General de División, D. Vicente Filisola, actual Presidente del Supremo Tribunal de Guerra y Marina de la República. Publicación del siglo diez y nueve.... Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, Calle de los Rebeldes, número 2, 1849. 256, 267-511 [1 blank], [2, himno]; 267 [1 blank] pp. (several leaves in Vol. II misbound). 2 vols. in one, 8vo (23.2 x 15 cm), contemporary Mexican mottled calf ruled in gilt. First edition of the Cumplido edition of Filisola’s memoirs. Basic Texas Books 62: “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 of Texas and the Texas Revolution from the Mexican point of view.’” Eberstadt, Texas 162:236. Howes F126. Palau 91612. Rader 1381. Raines, p. 82. Sabin 24324. Streeter 853n. ($1,500-3,000) More>>
51. FRÉMONT, J[ohn] C[harles]. A Report on an Exploration of the Country lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers. By Lieut. J. C. Fremont, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Washington: Printed by Order of the United States Senate, 1843. [3]-207 [1 blank] pp. (lacking first leaf, transmittal letter preceding title), large folded lithograph map with waterways colored blue: Map to Illustrate an Exploration of the Country, lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Nebraska or Platte River. By Lieut. J. C. Fremont, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers.... E. Weber & Co. Liths. (neat line to neat line: 82.7 x 35.5 cm); 6 lithograph plates of scenery (4 on tinted grounds), modern half tan sheep over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered red and black morocco labels. First edition. Frémont’s report appeared as a separate (issued in printed wrappers) and also in the combined four-volume compilation of Senate documents for the 27th Congress, 3rd Session. It is not certain if the present copy was originally the separate or was removed from the compilation, a differentiation not noted by Wheat and other bibliographers (other than Hasse). “This is the first issue of the many times reprinted report of Fremont’s first expedition to the Rocky Mountain country. The expedition was designed by Senator Benton and the expansionist group in Congress to publicize the first main division of the route to Oregon, for though this was well known to the fur traders, the region west of the Missouri was still terra incognita to the general public.-TWS”. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West #464 & Vol. II, pp. 180-182: “This report, as well as those of Frémont’s succeeding expeditions, became trail-bibles for many of the emigrants commencing to head for the Far West [and] attracted so much attention that it is recorded that it was frequently stolen from libraries.” ($1,000-2,000) More>>
52. FRÉMONT, J[ohn] C[harles] & [Jessie Benton Frémont]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44. By Brevet Captain J. C. Frémont, of the Topographical Engineers, under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. [Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2nd Session]. 693 [1 blank] pp., 5 lithographic maps (list below), 22 lithographed plates (views, fossils, botany), 3 of the maps and 12 of the plates are attributed to Weber in image. Thick 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm), original blindstamped dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered (neatly rebacked, original spine and endpapers preserved, hinges strengthened). First edition, the Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Rumsey 1833 (House issue): “The large map of the west is one of the most interesting and beautiful government maps of the 1840s. It filled in many of the gaps in cartographic knowledge of the west. Charles Preuss was the cartographer.” Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 497 & II, pp. 194-200: “[Frémont’s report and map] changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day.... [Frémont’s map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Frémont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Frémont would deserve to be remembered in history.... This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era.” ($1,500-3,000) More>>
53. FRÉMONT, J[ohn] C[harles] & [Jessie Benton Frémont]. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the year 1842; and to Oregon and North California, in the Years 1843-44. By Brevet Capt. J. C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers, under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of Top. Bureau. Syracuse: Published by Hall & Dickson; New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1847. 427 [1 blank], 4 (publishers’ ads) pp., 2 untitled wood-engraved plates, lithograph map on bank note paper: Map of Oregon, California, New Mexico, N.W. Texas & the Proposed Territory of Ne-Bras-Ka. By Rufus B. Sage. 1846. F. Michelin’s Lith. 111, Nassau St N.Y. (neat line to neat line: 44.7 x 60.7 cm; overall sheet size: 48.7 x 61.7 cm. 8vo (20 x 13.8 cm), publisher’s original dark brown blind-embossed ribbed cloth, gilt pictorial spine with gilt lettering. Early commercial edition of Frémont’s epochal report, abridged from the official version. The earliest edition came out in official government reports from the House and Senate in 1845, followed rapidly by reprints from the official editions and variants. Following a commercial edition put out by Henry Polkinhorn in 1845 (Plains & Rockies IV:115:3), numerous commercial editions appeared in 1846 and 1847 in the U.S. and abroad, including the present edition. This is the only edition of Frémont’s narrative to contain the Sage map, and Howes (F370) calls this Syracuse 1847 edition with the map the “best edition.” Graff 1433. Hill I, p. 113. Hill II:642 (map not mentioned). Holliday 399. Mintz, The Trail 165. Plains & Rockies IV:115:9. Streeter Sale 3132. Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 30. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 527 & Vol. II, pp. 41-42. For references to the Fremont’s report in general, see: Cowan II, p. 223n (citing Syracuse edition by the same publishers in 1848). Edwards, Desert Voices 62-63. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 87-88n. (doubting the supposed reference to Twenty-Nine Palms). Grolier American Hundred 49n (citing the official editions): “Undoubtedly the vividness and lucidity of the two reports are due in part to the literary skill of Jessie Benton Frémont.” Tweney, The Washington 89 #22. Zamorano 80 #39n. ($5,000-10,000) More>>
54. [GALVESTON]. VERKIN PHOTO COMPANY. Galveston Prints [cover title]. 8 pp. (typescript) + 40 black and white, professional, labelled photographs (each 19.2 x 24.1 cm), with discrete number in lower corner, 1 printed uncolored folded map: Port of Galveston, Texas Terminal Facilities, Cotton Compresses and Warehouses, April 1932 (neat line to neat line: 24.1 x 72.5 cm). N.p., n.d. (ca. 1939). Contemporary brown leatherette notebook ring binder lettered in gilt on upper cover (26 x 22 cm). Apparently a promotional and informational piece assembled as part of the effort to sell the Galveston city wharves to the city itself. The sale was consummated on November 29, 1940. The wharves had been privately owned before that time and had suffered chronic financial difficulties, despite their prodigious size and the amount of materials and goods that flowed through them. All the photos are marked with the embossed stamp of the Verkin Photo Company, founded by Paul Verkin, a German immigrant. Although he was joined in the business by three of his sons, all but Paul Roland had left the company by this time and Verkin himself had died in 1928. It seems likely, therefore, that all these images were taken by Paul. Overall, this is an excellent written and photographic summary of an important Texas port at the end of the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II. ($300-600) More>>
55. [GEOGRAPHY]. SANCHEZ DE BUSTAMANTE, A[ntonio]. Nuevo curso completo de geografía universal, física, histórica, comercial, industrial y militar.... Paris: Librería de Rosa, 1844. cxli [1 blank], [2], 648 + [4], 807 [1 blank] pp., 10 folding engraved maps and plates, including 2 maps showing Texas.2 vols., 8vo (19.5 x 11.2), contemporary full speckled calf, spines gilt lettered and decorated, boards gilt rolled, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. First edition, with introduction dated June 30, 1844, in Paris. The Bibliothèque Nationale does not have this edition; the earliest they have is the 1853 edition (with second edition stated on title), with later editions (1856, 1863, 1870). Palau (294929) lists only the 1856 edition. This work is a general geography covering the entire world, all of which is illustrated by maps. There is an extensive section on the United States, its states, and its territories. At the time a near neighbor was the Republic of Texas, which is treated in its own separate section and shown on both the map of North America and the map of Mexico. ($250-500) More>>
56. [GUZMÁN, José María]. Breve noticia que da al Supremo Gobierno, del actual estado del territorio de la Alta California, y medios que propone para la ilustracion y comercio en aquel país el guardian del Colegio Apostólico de San Fernando de México, año de 1833. Mexico: Imprenta de la Aguila, dirigida por José Ximeno, calle de Medinas núm. 6, 1833. [5] 5-8 pp., folded statistical table (Estado que manifiesta la población de los presidios, pueblos y misiones del Territorio de la Nueva California, con expresión del número de ganados y semillas cosechadas en el año de 1828, sheet measures 29.6 x 41.7 cm). 8vo (20.3 x 13.5 cm), original plain paper wrappers, original stitching. First edition. Cowan II, p. 154. Doheny Sale 200. Graff 1696. Holliday 464. Howell, California 50:108: “Official report on the missions of California at the time of secularization, with table of statistical information dating back to 1828. Guzmán, the head of the Franciscan College of San Fernando in Mexico City, was extremely knowledgeable about the activities of the Missions in Alta California. He suggests that the Pious Fund be used for enterprises outside the Missions.” Wagner cited this work as one of the twenty rarest and most important books on California. ($750-1,500) More>>
57. [HAYDEN EXPEDITION]. UNITED STATES. GEOLOGICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. HAYDEN, F[erdinand] V[andeveer]. [Annual Reports, First to Twelfth (titles vary)]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871-1883. 755 maps and plates (many folding, colored and/or on tinted grounds): 90 lithograph maps, 665 lithograph and engraved plates (some based on the work of artist Thomas Moran with his three-letter colophon TYM for his adopted professional name Thomas “Yellowstone” Moran). 12 vols., 8vo (23.4 x 15 cm), original dark brown panelled cloth, inner edges of panels with original blindstamping “U.S. Government Bindery,” spines lettered in gilt (final portfolio volume lettered in gilt on upper cover with thick ribbon ties). As the ever-swelling and increasing physical bulk of this series indicates, Hayden’s explorations and activities grew from modest beginnings to vitally important sources that influenced science, Western development, and government policy. Starting off as modest, unillustrated inclusions in land office reports, the reports grew in their own right yearly until the final report, which was so large and detailed that it must have exhausted the writers, artists, lithographers, engravers, printers, and binders alike. Even for a government work, the Twelfth Annual Report is an impressive achievement on many levels. The utilitarian, brown cloth government bindings barely reflect the importance or beauty of the contents. Probably the most celebrated and famous reports in the series are the ones on the Yellowstone area, which enchanted Hayden and which he studied in detail. Whatever lingering doubts there may have been in the public and scientific minds concerning the wonders of this area were cleared completely by Hayden and his fellow scientists in ways that previous descriptions had failed to do and which dispelled the myth of “Colter’s Hell” once and for all. Of special iconographic interest are the various plates based on the work of Thomas Moran (1837-1926), the extraordinary artist whose dazzling art work is unique in nineteenth-century U.S. art for its vivid coloring, brilliant use of light, and masterly, dramatic sweep. Although there is a temptation to focus on the Yellowstone and Moran’s seductive images, within the covers of these twelve volumes is a wealth of solid, newly discovered material relating Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and the rest of the United States for that matter. A foundation work on the West. ($4,000-8,000) More>>
58. [HAYDEN EXPEDITION]. UNITED STATES. GEOLOGICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. ELLIOTT, Henry W[ood]. Profiles, Sections and Other Illustrations, Designed to Accompany the Final Report of the Chief Geologist of the Survey and Sketched under His Directions...Under Authority of the Secretary of the Interior [at head of title] Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey of the Territories F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist in Charge. New York: Julius Bien, 1872. [4] pp., 65 photolithograph sheets with multiple profiles per sheet, 274 images (profiles, sections, and vignettes), most folding, many signed in image “H.W.E.” and dated. 4to (30.5 x 24.5 cm), later green library buckram, title and call number lettered in gilt on spine. Excellent association copy: Blank preliminary leaf with ink date and bold signature of Edw[ard] D. Cope (1850-1897, paleontologist for the Hayden Survey and later antagonist in the famous Marsh-Cope “Bone Wars.”First edition, advance copy, limited to 100 copies. This report contains the bulk of Henry Wood Elliott’s art work for the Hayden Survey (see preceding entry), most of which was published nowhere else. These images are important because of their scientific contribution to several fields, historical significance, documentation of the Hayden expedition, and their beauty and attention to detail. Elliott’s illustrations were among the early images of many locations in the new territories of the West. ($3,000-5,000) More>>
59. Heraldo Agrícola. 4 photo-offset broadside advertising inserts from the Heraldo Agrícola. Mexico, 1906. Folded as issued and printed on very fine, thin paper. The Heraldo Agrícola: Órgano del agricultor mexicano was published in Mexico City, 1902-1913, and was one of the progressive periodicals that sought to promote and modernize Mexican agriculture, an influence of the forward-thinking principles of Porfirio Díaz. The ads here are excellent examples of the type of equipment available to progressive farmers, miners, and citizens. No copies of the Heraldo Agrícola are located by Charno, Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries. ($100-200) More>>
60. HOUSTON, Samuel. Lithograph of an autograph letter signed, written by Houston to Colonel William Bryan, Texian Counsel, New Orleans, dated at Washington, January 24, 1843; second leaf with Houston’s list dated January 26, 1843. On p. [4] is Thomas J. Green’s printed statement dated October, 1855, that he is publishing this proof of Houston’s treachery and dishonesty. 4 pp., 4to. Creased where formerly folded, a few minor voids professionally stabilized (some with loss of letters), minor staining, especially on second leaf, otherwise good. Rare. In this letter, Houston gives instructions for purchasing household goods in his name, although Green in his footnote implies that the articles were actually paid for by the State of Texas, rather than by Houston himself. According to the statement at the end, Thomas J. Green published this letter in response to Houston’s attacks on him in the U.S. Senate, which themselves were responses to Green’s attacks on Houston in his 1845 book, Journal of the Texian Expedition against Mier..., in which Green viciously attacks Houston for failing to support the expedition after it was captured. The original letter which Green here says is in his possession apparently has disappeared. Another copy of this facsimile is in the Lamar Papers at the Texas State Library (#2150). The place of printing is unknown, but Green apparently was in California in 1855. ($500-1,000) More>>
61. HUMBOLDT, Alexander de [Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von]. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.... Translated from the Original French, By John Black. New York: Printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. Vol. I: xii, cxv [1 blank], 221 [1 blank]; Vol. II: 377 [1 blank] pp. [all published]. 2 vols., 8vo (22 x 14 cm), contemporary tan sheep over marbled boards, black calf gilt-lettered spine labels. In Vol. II the verso of front free endpaper and recto of flyleaf bear a later nineteenth-century pencil sketch of the Battle of Veracruz (March 1847) in the Mexican-American War. First American edition, printing through Book IV, Chapter IX; no more was issued by this publisher. American Imprints 23066. Howell, California 50:120. Howes H786. Pilling 1874a. Plains & Rockies IV:7a:5. Sabin 33715. This publication in the U.S. reflects a growing interest in areas west of the Mississippi, which would become crucial battlegrounds in just a few decades as the young republic expanded into former French and Spanish possessions, as Humboldt intimates in his chapter on the Intendency of San Luís Potosí. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) visited the United States upon completing the first scientific exploration of New Spain (1799-1804) and met with Thomas Jefferson to share his unparalleled geographic knowledge of New Spain and the nation’s newly acquired Louisiana Territory. ($300-600) More>>
62. [INDIAN TERRITORY]. Holdenville Times. Special. [Holdenville, Indian Territory, 1899]. Folio broadside printed in six columns. 55 x 37.6 cm. Creased where formerly folded with small losses affecting a few letters, uniform light browning, slight darkening at bottom from ink offset. Professionally deacidified and backed with thin archival paper. A very nice copy of a rare survival. The imprint is interesting for the place and time where it was printed, and the content is exceptional. According to the text this precedes the printed copies that were coming from Washington, D.C. This is the report implementing the 1887 Dawes Commission principles in the Indian Territory, whereby Creek lands in this case were divided among individuals as part of a scheme to quote “civilize” the tribes and erase the practice of allowing them to have all their lands held in common. The agreement printed here represents the capitulation by the Creek Nation, one of the Five Civilized Tribes not covered by the original bill, to the principles embodied in it. By all accounts this process proved disastrous and did nothing more than contribute to the decline and poverty of the affected Native Americans. The Holdenville Times commenced publication in 1896 and ceased about 1910. The newspaper was founded Isaac Warren Singleton (d. 1940), who earlier published the Indian Journal of Eufaula. ($1,00-2,000) More>>
63. JAMES, John, John Herndon James, & family. Archive of approximately a thousand items: maps (printed, manuscript, and blueprint), field notes, documents, journals, business and personal correspondence, legal papers, deeds, many land grants (signed by Texas governors), photographs, books, and ephemera. Mostly Texas, ca. 1840 to early twentieth century. Subjects include Fisher & Miller German Emigration Company, John James estate & family land holdings, International-Great Northern Railroad, Grand View San Antonio addition litigation with Dignowity, etc. Included are many certified copies of Republic of Texas documents which often contain sidelights of history not found elsewhere. This is an excellent archive relating to pioneer surveyor John James (1819-1877), a native of Nova Scotia. “John James had the distinction during his life of conveying more land to settlers and different parties than any other man in Texas. Years ago it was common talk among business men in San Antonio that James knew the location of every permanent water hole in west Texas. The name of John James affixed to a deed conveying land was in itself a guarantee that the title was perfect, and to this day of all his numerous conveyances of land his reputation for honesty and correctness has never been questioned” (Vinton Lee James, Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio and West Texas, San Antonio, Texas, 1938, p. 23). See also: Handbook of Texas Online: John James. A good deal of the material relates to the James family land and real estate ventures after the death of John James in 1877. These papers are from the files of John H. James (1852-1912), noted attorney and jurist. For background on John Herndon James, see Handbook of Texas Online. A few of the many highlights in the collection include the 1854 small-format DeCordova map of Texas; 1866 Colton Texas almanac map; Roessler’s map of Llano County (1875, preceding the first official map of Llano County); Morrison & Fourmy’s pocket map of San Antonio (1883); a large number of of manuscript maps, including Lorenzo Castro’s 1873 map of Kinney County; Lotshiusky’s survey map of Hondo, Rio Verde and Quihi; Texas Ranger Joseph A. Tivy’s “Map of the San Felipe A. M. & I Company Compiled and drawn from the Field Notes of Joseph A. Tivy, Charles De Montel, Joseph Jones, and A. F. Dignowity...Prepared by Alex. L. Lucas, San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 29th 1887”; Fort Stockton development maps from the late nineteenth century, etc. Ephemera include items such as a rare 1861 Texas Confederate imprint addressed to John James relating to the Southern Defense Aid Society of Bexar County. Books include: John C. Duval, Early Times in Texas. Austin: H. P. N. Gammel & Co., 1892; Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days. Austin: Gammel Book Company, [1900]; William Preston Stapp, The Prisoners Of Perote.... Philadelphia: Zieber, 1845. ($50,000-100,000) More>>
64. JONES, Anson. Memoranda and Official Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation. Including a Brief Autobiography of the Author. New York, 1859. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original cloth. Spine faded, first and last leaves foxed (as usual), offsetting from portrait to title, portrait moderately foxed, otherwise very good, much better than usually found. First edition. Basic Texas Books 113: “The only formal autobiography of a president of the Republic of Texas.... Billington called it ‘one of the fullest accounts of the early history of Texas and an essential source of information on its republican period and annexation.’” Eberstadt, Texas 162:450. Howes J191. Raines, p. 129. Sabin 36455. Tate, The Indians of Texas 2071. ($250-500) More>>
65. KANSAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY. Statement of the Condition and Resources of the Kansas Central Railway (Narrow Gauge) from Leavenworth, Kansas to Denver, Colorado. Leavenworth: Printed at the Office of the Kansas Farmer, 1871. 19 [1 blank] pp. (with printed correction slip pasted on p. [2]), folding lithograph map on bank note paper, routes marked in red: Map of the Kansas Central Railway and Its Connections, neat line to neat line: 31.7 x 60.7 cm. 8vo (21.3 x 13.6 cm), original coated blue paper wrappers printed and decorated in black and gold, sewn. First edition of a quite grand early Kansas imprint, both in content and physical makeup. Eberstadt 137:274. Graff 2273. Hawley & Farley, Kansas Imprints, 1854-1876: A Supplement 240. The map is not listed by Wheat, nor in either of the Modelski compilations on railroad maps. ($750-1,500) More>>
66. [KANSAS TERRITORY]. WOODSON TOWN ASSOCIATION. Printed form completed in manuscript: Kansas Territory No. [Seventy Nine (79)] [printed device of eagle] [One] Share. Woodson Town Association. This is to certify that [John H. Swift] is the proprietor of [one] Share of the Town property of the Woodson Town Association....Done by order of the Woodson Town Company, Greenwood [May 5th.] 185[6]. [Henry Addoms] President [W. W. Brewster] Secretary. N.p., n.d. [Greenwood, Kansas Territory? ca. 1855-1856]. Manuscript transfer in ink on verso: “For value received I hereby authorize the secretary of the Woodson Town Association to transfer the within share standing to my credit to John H. Swift, Atchison K.T. Nov 3rd. 1856.” Broadside share form on pale slate blue paper (31 x 19.7 cm). Creased where formerly folded, moderate foxing, ink manuscript on recto slightly faded (but legible), otherwise very good. Unrecorded Kansas Territory imprint. Not in standard sources. Greenwood is located in present-day Greenwood County, Kansas. Woodson was presumably in neighboring Woodson County, although no town by that name ever seems to have been founded. ($250-500) More>>
68. LEA, Tom. Peleliu Landing. El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1945. Plates by the author. 4to, original herringbone twill Marine dungaree cloth. Very fine in original, moderately chipped glassine d.j. With the offprint from Life Magazine. Signed by Lea. First edition, limited edition (#465 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Lea). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Lea) 30. Hinshaw & Lovelace, Lea 66C. Holman, Hertzog Dozen: “A volume that met all of the standards we can set for a book.” Lowman, Printer at the Pass 29A; Remembering Carl Hertzog, pp. 7–8: “The most daring, exciting, and innovative volume produced in Texas to that time.” ($750-1,500) More>>
70. [MAP]. ARISTA, Mariano (as re-interpreted by Joseph Goldsborough Bruff). A Correct Map of the Seat of War in Mexico. Being a Copy of Genl. Arista’s Map, taken at Resaca de la Palma, with Additions and Corrections; Embellished with Diagrams of the Battles of the 8th. & 9th. May, and Capture of Monterey, with a Memorandum of Forces Engaged, Results, &c. and Plan of Vera Cruz and Castle of San Juan de Ulua. New York; Published by J. Disturnell. 102, Broadway, 1847. Designed by J. G. Bruff Washington D.C.; [lower left above neat line] On Stone by J. Probst Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1847, by J. G. Bruff, in the Clerk’s Office of the Dist. Court of the Southern Dist. of New York.; [lower right above neat line] Lith. of E. Jones & G. W Newman, 128 Fulton St.; [top center: large American eagle with flag, banners, shield, rays of light above, clouds below]; [beneath eagle, on scroll] Table of Distances; [left center: U.S. Cavalryman riding full speed over two Mexicans as smoke and dust fly through the air]; [below Cavalryman, key to map, including flag marker symbol for towns “having been taken possession of by the Am. forces”]; Explanation...; [five insets at right] [1] Plan of Monterey; [2] Map Showing the Battle Grounds of the 8th. and 9th. May 1846 by J. H. Eaton, 3d Inf.; [3] Memorandum of the Battles of 8th. & 9th. May Palo Alto...Resaca de la Palma...; [4] Tampico and Its Environs; [5] Chart of the Bay of Vera Cruz. Drawn by Order of V Admiral Baudin; [table at lower center] Heights of Towns & Mountains. New York: John Disturnell, 1847 (copyright 1847 by J. G. Bruff). Lithographed map within line border with ornamental corners, original bright outline coloring in rose, green, blue, yellow, and orange, border to border: 62.5 x 49 cm. First edition of the second most important map of the Mexican-American War (the Number One map being John Disturnell’s so-called “Treaty Map”; Disturnell also published the present map). The present map is an early issue, without features added as the War progressed (e.g., Diagram of the Battle Ground February 22d. and 23d.1847, and the view Vera Cruz and Castle of San Juan de Ulua). ($4,000-8,000) More>>
71. [MAP]. ARROWSMITH, John. A Map of Texas, Compiled from Surveys Recorded in the Land Office of Texas, and Other Official Surveys. By John Arrowsmith, Soho Square. London. [pictorial seals of the Republic of Texas and the General Land Office of Texas] Recognized as an Independent State by Great Britain 16th. Novr. 1840. [below neat line at center] London, Pubd. 17 April, 1841. by John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square. [inset lower left] Plan of Galveston Bay from a M.S. [inset lower right: untitled map of North America from lower Canada to Central America with Republic of Texas outlined in pink]. Engraved map on thin paper, original outline coloring on map and insets (neat line to neat line: 60 x 50.5 cm). Other than faint offsetting, very fine, original condition, with strong original outline coloring. In: KENNEDY, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. In Two Volumes...Volume I... London: R. Hastings, 13, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn, 1841. lii, 378 pp., 4 maps (see list below). 8vo (23 x 14 cm), original blind-stamped dark olive green cloth (neatly recased and restored), generally very fine. The title page of the book is inscribed by the author: “To Sir John Philippart, with the Author’s Compliments.” Prolific literary author and compiler John Philippart (1784?-1874, DNB) wrote Memoirs and Campaigns of Charles John: Prince Royal of Sweden (London, 1814), The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book (London, 1820), etc. Second issue of large Arrowsmith map of Texas in the first edition of book. The map first appeared in Arrowsmith’s London Atlas[1832-1846] with imprint date of February 1841 (Streeter 1373; Phillips, Atlases 74); a second issue followed, as here; and the third issue came out in the reissue of Arrowsmith’s London Atlas, 1842-[1850] with imprint date of June 8, 1843 (Streeter 1373A; Phillips, Atlases 789). Amon Carter Museum, Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 33: “Regarded as the best and most useful map of Texas at the time of its publication. The depiction of the western boundary of Texas as the Rio Grande as far north as its source reflects the popular notion of that period and helps to illustrate the rationale behind the ill-fated Santa Fe expedition. The map was widely copied, attested by the number of times Arrowsmith’s errors in the Panhandle area describing that territory as well-wooded and watered were added to many later maps. Despite this mistake, the map is generally one of the best maps for the Republic period.” Kennedy’s Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas “on its first publication, was pronounced to be the best history of Texas extant. The Texan Congress passed a resolution of thanks to the author. Mr. Kennedy visited Texas in 1839 for historic material. His favourable report, on his return to England, doubtless prepared the way for English recognition of the Republic. The physical description of Texas in volume 1 is the best published up to that time, and the history proper is in a calm and dignified style, and is not without literary merit. No historian of Texas has more eloquent paragraphs” (Raines, p. 132). ($12,000-24,000) More>>
72. [MAP]. ATWOOD, J[ohn] M. Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the West India Islands with a Portion of Venezuela & New Granada; Showing the Routes Overland and by the Isthmus to California & Oregon, Also the New Boundaries of California, Utah, & New Mexico. Compiled from the Latest Authorities, Engraved & Published By J. M. Atwood, No. 19 Beekman Street, New York. 1851. D. Mc.Lellan, Printr. Spruce St. cor. of William St. Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1851, by J. M. Atwood, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. [table at lower center] Table of Distances. New York, 1851. Lithograph map on bank note paper, original full hand color, ornate oak leaf and acorn border with corner vignettes of agricultural and wharf-side scenes, border to border: 51.5 x 60.7 cm. Folded into original dark green blind-embossed cloth covers (14.3 x 9 cm), lettered in gilt on upper cover (Map of the United-States Canada, Mexico Central America and the West India Islands).First edition. Rumsey 2365: “Shows the Gold Regions in California. Atwood made important maps of the Gold Rush for Colton and Ensign & Thayer in 1849. In this map he publishes his own Gold Rush map, showing the routes to California and Oregon.” This beautifully executed map shows the overland and sea routes from the East Coast and Midwest to the West Coast. The new borders Atwood depicts show Mexico intruding north all the way to the Gila River, reflecting a pre-Gadsden border. ($4,000-8,000) More>>
73. [MAP]. BÄDEKER, J. Karte des Staates Texas (aufgenommen in die Union 1846.) nach der neuesten Eintheilung. 1849 [left of title, Lone Star flag flying upside down] [below neat line] Verlag v. J. Bädeker in Elberfeld. | Lith. bei Fr. Koenen, Elberfeld. [inset plan at lower right, neat line to neat line: 6.8 x 8.1 cm] Plan von Castroville. [inset plan at lower left, neat line to neat line: 5.3 x 8.1cm] Plan von Neu-Braunfels und Comalstadt. Lithograph map on wove paper, original hand coloring (red outline color indicating counties; German settlements of the “Deutsche Colonie des Mainzer Vereins” and “Franxös Colonie” shown in yellow wash; Rio Grande and Indian Point on Gulf Coast (latter, being the official point of entry established by the German Emigration Company) in blue; Texas flag with original hand coloring in red, white and blue. Neat line to neat line: 29 x 36.2 cm. Overall sheet size: 32.7 x 40.5 cm. Neatly laid on early cartographical linen and stitched selvage. First edition of a very early German emigration map of Texas. Day, Maps of Texas, p. 51: “Map in English and German...following cartographers Arrowsmith, Emory, Gregg.” Graff 136. Taliaferro 294 (citing only a photostat): “Published to serve the prospective European immigrant to Texas, the map designates in color the colonies of Solms-Braunfels and Henri Castro. Organized counties are outlined in red. The inset plans of New Braunfels and Castroville are among the earliest cartographic records of those two towns.” The map is sometimes found with Viktor Bracht’s book on Texas, Texas im Jahre 1848... (Elberfeld & Iserlohn: Julius Bädeker, 1849). ($25,000-35,000) More>>
74. [MAP]. BOHM, C[harles]. Untitled map of Denver and Cheyenne region [above lower neat line] C. Bohm-Eng-Denver-C. N.p., n.d. [Denver, ca. 1865 (based on postal markings)]. Lithograph map printed on verso of yellow envelope with postal mark for Denver, January 7, and postage-due stamp of three cents. Envelope measures 7.8 x 13 cm. Left side neatly trimmed where opened, costing right neat line and small part of image. Very good. The envelope is addressed to Mrs. Molly Neysinger in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. First edition. Not in standard sources. McMurtrie & Allen (Early Printing in Colorado...1859-1876 #176) record Hand-Book of Colorado for Citizen and Traveler... (Denver, 1873), which has a map (Map of Boulder and Vicinity) by Bohm, similar in its simple style to the present map, which shows the greater Denver area with its railroad connections, South Platte River, and the gold, silver, iron, and coal fields to the west. Cheyenne is shown to the north. Charles Bohm is listed along with Henry Bohm as an engraver at the corner of Curtis and E Streets in J. E. Wharton’s History of the City...To Which is Added a Full and Complete Business Directory of the City, Denver, 1866 (see p. 132). ($500-1,000) More>>
75. [MAP]. BRADFORD, T[homas] G[amaliel]. Texas. [top right above neat line] 35. [below] Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1838, by T. G. Bradford, in the Clerks Office, of the District Court of Massachusetts. | Engraved by G. W. Boynton. [Boston, ca. 1839]. Engraved map on medium-weight wove paper, land grants in original strong color (yellow, blue, pink, tan, and green, modest ornate border shaded green. Neat line to neat line: 37.5 x 30.5 cm. Scale: 1 inch = approximately 45 miles. This copy of Bradford’s large-format Texas map is from the same plate as the first issue (1838), but it is an advanced issue: added is the city of Austin which is shown as capital (established 1839); the southwestern boundary has been moved farther south (from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande); dotted county lines are superimposed over original grants (for instance, San Patricio County is here added to the map and colored in blue to the Rio Grande, but “McMullen & McGlone’s Grant” is still shown above as an empresario grant). There are at least six different versions of the Bradford map; all of them are from the atlases that Bradford published between 1835 and 1840. ($1,500-3,000) More>>
76. [MAP]. BURR, David H. Ohio. By David H. Burr. [below] Published by J. H. Mather & Co. Hartford. 1846 [below neat line] Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1833 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Engraved and Printed by S. Stiles & Co. Hartford, 1846. Copper-engraved map within Greek key border, original full color, inset of Cincinnati, neat line to neat line: 48.5 x 57 cm. Pocket map folded into original cloth covers, gilt-lettered: Colton's Map of Ohio. Other than a few expert reinforcements clean splits, very fine. Phillips, America lists the 1833 edition (p. 628), but not this Colton version. One interesting aspect of this map is the fact it reflects the many publishing combinations and permutations that pervaded the nineteenth-century map industry, here with the map attributed to Burr, engraved and printed by Stiles, published by Mather, but yet found in a Colton pocket cover and copyrighted by Colton in 1833. This map would have needed frequent updating since its initial appearance, because Ohio was rapidly settled and new towns and roads were created with great regularity after initial settlement started by people from Connecticut. One area of the state's development is shown by the fact that someone has outlined existing and potential canals in blue ink and some railroads in red. The National Road which crosses the state from east to west is prominently displayed, although by this time railroads were beginning to compete with the Road as a preferred method of moving both freight and people. ($500-1,000) More>>
77. [MAP]. BURR, David H. United States. By David H. Burr. [below] Published by J. H. Colton & Co. New York 1835.... of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. New York: J. H. Colton, 1835. Copper-engraved map within border, original outline color, 7 insets (Albany, Boston, New York, Baltimore & Washington, South Florida, Philadelphia, Cincinnati), neat line to neat line: 44.5 x 54 cm. Pocket map folded into original roan covers. A few small spots, light offsetting, separations at folds professionally repaired (some minor losses), a few tiny holes, overall very good. On the insets, existing and potential canal routes are marked in ink. Phillips (America, p. 888) lists the 1833 edition but not this 1835 reissue. A very early Colton publication, as he had just issued his first map in 1833. This map shows the area to the east of Texas and the Missouri or North-West Territory north to the Canadian border and west to the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers. This map would have been of intense interest to those headed west, and Colton no doubt continued to revise this map so that emigrants could be assured of having the latest information for their travels. ($750-1,500) More>>
78. [MAP]. CASE, O. D. & COMPANY. Map of the Seat of War to Accompany the American Conflict. Hartford: Published by O. D. Case & Co. [lower right above neat line] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1865 by O. D. Case & Company, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut | Engraved by Oliver J. Stuart, New York and Brooklyn. [inset map at lower left] Map of the Lower Portion of Texas [inset map at lower right] Map of the Lower Portion of Florida. Hartford, 1865. Lithograph map on thin paper, original full hand color, neat line to neat line: 65.5 x 93 cm. First edition, a map separately issued to accompany Horace Greeley’s The American Conflict (Hartford: Case, 1864-1866; Sabin 28482). The map, however, was not issued with the book and is rarely found with it. This highly detailed map includes the entire Southern area of the Civil War as well as the border areas, such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Missouri. ($200-400) More>>
79. [MAP]. CHAPMAN, Silas. Wisconsin a Sectional Map with the Most Recent Surveys...Lith. of F. Mayer & Co., 96 Fulton St., N.Y.... [Milwaukee, 1855]. Lithograph map with original outline color, neat line to neat line: 54 x 77 cm. Pocket map folded into original cloth covers with printed paper label. Light wear and few spots to pocket covers, map very fine. Later edition of map first published in 1853 (Phillips, America, p. 1077; Rumsey 138). Silas Chapman created maps of the Midwest from the early 1840s through the 1870s, including pocket and wall maps of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. A version of this map appeared in Chapman's A Hand Book of Wisconsin (1855). ($500-1,000) More>>
80. [MAP]. CHESLEY, J[ames] A. Two manuscript maps of Virginia shore and waterways, both professionally rendered navigation maps of this portion of the James River complete with landmarks and soundings. Both ca. 1881. [1] “James River from Point of Shoals Light to City Point.” Manuscript in black ink on thin, translucent sized cartographical cloth. Image area: 44.5 x 128 cm. Moderately foxed (especially heavy on lower blank margin) and trimmed at left side (apparently with some loss). A professionally rendered navigation map of this portion of the James River complete with landmarks and soundings. [2] Untitled manuscript map in black ink on heavy cartographical paper, on later wooden roller. At upper right: “J. A. Chesley Lieut. U.S. Navy, Commanding U.S. Monitor ‘Mahopac’ off City Point Va April 1881.” Neat line to neat line: 58.7 x 93 cm. A few light spots, right margin chipped with some losses touching neat line, over all very good. The map shows the area on the Appomattox and James Rivers from City Point upstream to approximately Farrar’s Island. ($600-1,000) More>>
81. [MAP]. CLASON MAP CO. Clason’s Guide Map of Denver Colorado Published by the Clason Map Co., Denver, Colo. .... [Denver, 1919]. Lithograph map with outline shading in red and green, overall sheet size including printed text at right: 48.5 x 61 cm. Pocket map and 32-page guide folded into original pictorial boards. Except for small tear in upper left portion of map (just into neat line) and a few tiny losses at upper right in blank area, very fine. An extremely detailed guide with its equally detailed accompanying map keyed to the guide itself. An inset map of Denver shows in considerable detail the “Denver Business District” anchored by Union Depot on one end and the state capitol at the other. ($100-200) More>>
82. [MAP]. COLTON, G[eorge] W[oolworth] & C[harles] B. Colton’s Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies. Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Published by G. W. and C. B. Colton, & Co. 172 William St. New York. 1869 [inset map at middle right] The Eastern Portion of the West India Islands, on the Same Scale as the Main Map. New York, 1869. Lithograph map on two sheets, original full color, some country borders (including U.S.-Mexico) in bright rose, seas in palest blue wash. Neat line to neat line: 94 x 110 cm. Folded into original dark brown embossed and gilt-lettered cloth covers (20 x 10.2 cm) , upper cover lettered gilt (Colton's Map of the United States, Mexico, Central American, West Indies, &c. G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co.), on pastedown is printed ad for Sheble, Smith & Co. (Successors to R. L. Barnes.) Map Publishers, No. 27 South Sixth Street, Phila. Not in Phillips (America). This rare, magnific