Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

Unique Texas Scene—Exquisite Eighteenth-Century Hand-Painted Fan La Salle Expedition & Map of Matagorda Bay, Texas Click for full description with images
Pocket Map * Mitchell's Map of Mexico, including Yucatan & Upper California, the 1847 issue, the most extensive of this series of Mexican-American War maps. 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.”	John Phillips’ Beautiful Plate Book: Mexico Illustrated Very Rare & The Most Desirable Issue: Full Color Click for full description with images
Palenque Lavishly Illustrated Click for full description with images		Salva's Superb Copy of Missa Gothica seù Mozarabica Click for full description with images
“The most important contemporary map of the Mississippi and the Gulf region”—Streeter “First map with the name Texas”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg Cartographic Filibustering in the Spanish Borderlands Click for full description with images	Earliest Bird’s-Eye View of Laredo listed by Reps “The Gateway to and from Mexico” Click for full description with images	The First Lithograph Plate Book on Mexico Click for full description with images
The Immense Natural Treasures of America Revealed and Lavishly Illustrated “The First Scientific Expedition to New Spain” Click for full description with images	Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology Click for full description with images	“The first history of California”—Streeter With a Landmark Map Finally Dispelling the Myth of California as an Island 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	Illustrations of Some of the Foremost Surviving Mesoamerican Pictorial Codices Click for full description with images	Early, Excessively Rare, Large-Scale Map of San Francisco With Vignettes of Landmarks & Architecture Click for full description with images
Alternate Version of Trost’s Iconic Spindletop Photo Click for full description with images	“Classic Book on Mexico” (Streeter, Texas 1104). Aquatints & Lithos after Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward’s Art Work Click for full description with images	“Considered the first encyclopedia of the Americas”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg Click for full description with images

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