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
Earliest Bird’s-Eye View of Laredo listed by Reps “The Gateway to and from Mexico” 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.”	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		“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 Rare First Issue of the First Printed Map to Accurately Delineate the Mississippi River “One of the most definitive maps of the time, as well as the most influential in the later cartography of North America”—Streeter Click for full description with images	The First Lithograph Plate Book on Mexico 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
Rare British Edition of Linati’s Masterpiece, with Very Fresh Plates Click for full description with images	The Cartographical Beginnings of Manifest Destiny Very Fresh Copy With Original Brilliant Hand Coloring Click for full description with images	Very Rare Immigration Map of British Canada with Strong Political Implications Click for full description with images
“The very best American battle scenes in existence” (Bennett) Click for full description with images	Alternate Version of Trost’s Iconic Spindletop Photo Click for full description with images	Palenque Lavishly Illustrated 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 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	México y sus alrededores “The most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century” (Mathes) Seven individual albums: introductory essay with images

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