Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

Stephen F. Austin’s 1836 map of Texas, the cornerstone for a collection of Texas maps Click for full description with images
Peter Maverick’s Very Rare Pocket Map Version of García Conde’s Mexico City A Superb Copy in Original Full Color 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.”	Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology 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		Two Rare & Important Maps relating to Texas & California “Major source for the study of tribute, place glyphs, and political economy and geography of the Aztecs” (Glass) “One of the finest products of the press of Hogal” (JCB) Click for full description with images
“Goddard’s remarkable and beautifully designed production can properly be deemed the capstone of the gold region cartography” (Wheat) 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	Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated Issue on Tinted Grounds, Plates Exceptionally Fine Click for full description with images
Exceedingly Rare 1849 German California Gold Rush Guide & Map Die Flugschrift, die Strömen von Auswanderern den Weg nach Kalifornien wies Click for full description with images	Very Fine Copy in Original Cloth of Folsom’sMexico in 1842 With an Unusual Map of the Republic of Texas Click for full description with images	The First Scholarly Description of the Discovery and Attempted Explanation of the Meaning of the “Piedra del Sol” 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	First Publication of Fifteenth-Century Migration Maps of the Chichimeca Click for full description with images	Exceedingly Rare Tanner Map in the Treaty Map Sequence: The First to Show the Alamo & the Battle of San Jacinto Thomas W. Streeter’s Copy Click for full description with images
“Considered the first encyclopedia of the Americas”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg Click for full description with images	Alternate Version of Trost’s Iconic Spindletop Photo Click for full description with images	“Charney was the first to undertake serious excavation work in the Mexican Archaeological zones”—Palmquist. “An important pioneer of archaeological photography” Click for full description with images

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