Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

Original Archive of Terry’s Texas Rangers The Largest & Finest Contemporary Collection in Private Hands Click for full description with images
Lyon’s Sketch Book of Mexico with Lithographs on India Proof Paper. Early English Lithography by Hullmandel Click for full description with images	Americana: High Spots of Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Photography, Prints & Ephemera Auction 23 Prices Realized Auction Schedule: Thursday, April 4, 2013: Session 1: 10:00 a.m. CDT, Lots 1-150 Session 2: 2:00 p.m. CDT, Lots 151-300 Friday, April 5, 2013: Session 3: 10:00 a.m. CDT, Lots 301-450 Session 4: 2:00 p.m. CDT, Lots 451-end Exhibition: Tuesday & Wednesday, April 2 & 3, 2013 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST 102 W. Tarrant Street Llano, Texas 78643 Click for Auction 23 Abstracts, Detailed Item Descriptions, and Illustrations Auction 23 Flipbook Download complete catalogue: [ PDF] [Microsoft Word] Download abstracts: [PDF] Search Auction 23 Catalogue: Tip: To search for an exact phrase, put your search terms in “double quotes.”	“The first drawings of Maya architecture to be published” (Wauchope). Lithographs on India Proof Paper Click for full description with images
First Publication of Fifteenth-Century Migration Maps of the Chichimeca Click for full description with images		Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology Click for full description with images
“The largest single source of printed images based on the Mexican view of the [Mexican-American] War” (Ben W. Huseman, “Eyewitness to War”) Click for full description with images	Transit of Venus-1769. Early Scientific Expedition to California Click for full description with images	“The very best American battle scenes in existence” (Bennett) Click for full description with images
“The best answer was to get out a better map. They did so. Ransom and Doolittle have achieved here what they had not before, a Nevada map of importance”—Wheat Click for full description with images	Original Preliminary Art Work for Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated Click for full description with images	Exceedingly Rare & Little-Known Plate Book by a Hungarian Aristocrat Lithographs from Very Early Photographs of Venezuela & Mexico Click for full description with images
Monumental Americana Kingsborough’s Antiquities of America Click for full description with images	“The most beautiful & generally interesting of Humboldt’s works” (Sabin) With the Magnificent Chimborazo Plate after Humboldt’s 1802 Drawing Click for full description with images	Salva's Superb Copy of Missa Gothica seù Mozarabica Click for full description with images
The French Venegas —”L’un des meilleurs livres anciens sur la Californie” A Choice Copy—In Original Pastepaper Covers Click for full description with images	Fine, Fresh Copy of Catherwood’s Maya Portfolio, Tinted Issue Click for full description with images	The English Venegas “The first book in English completely devoted to California”—Hill Click for full description with images

AUCTION 23 * April 4 & 5, 2013 * Llano, Texas