22. BOLTON, Herbert E. Texas in the Middle
Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and
Administration. Berkeley: University of California,
1915. xii, 501 pp. 13 maps (several folding). 8vo, original
navy cloth. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise very
good.
First
edition. Campbell, p. 161. Clark, Old South
I:1n. Howes B589. Basic Texas Books 20: "Contains
the best English translation of 6 major narratives of
explorations into Texas, as well as others into New Mexico,
Arizona, and California. Best work of scholarship on
eighteenth-century Texas." Rader 399. Rittenhouse 70.
Steck, p. 54. Pingenot: One of the best scholarly
studies of the period in any language, when Texas served as
a buffer between the competing French and Spanish empires.
Includes material on Indians, trade, ecclesiastical
history, explorations, etc. Quite scarce.
($100-250)