Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

Pocket maps, with a few case maps thrown in. Click for listing of maps in Auction 23
Original Preliminary Art Work for Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated 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.”	Rare British Edition of Linati’s Masterpiece, with Very Fresh Plates Click for full description with images
“Probably the outstanding book on the early Gold Rush in California.”. Early Lithos of San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey & Mining Sites 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
A Wonderful, Fresh Copy of the Disturnell Treaty Map Click for full description with images	Count Waldeck's Voyage Pittoresque et archéologique dans la province d’Yucatan (Paris & London, 1838), a Mesoamerican classic, with an important map of Yucatan. Click for full description with images	Monumental Americana Kingsborough’s Antiquities of America Click for full description with images
Carl Nebel’s Iconic Lithographs of Nineteenth-Century Mexico Most in Full Original Color Click for full description with images	Acceptance of the Patronage of Virgin of Guadalupe for Mexico With a Remarkable Engraving of the Virgin Saving Mexico City from the Pestilence Click for full description with images	Entirely Engraved Book on the Patron Saint of Mexico Click for full description with images
Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology Click for full description with images	Exceptionally Rare Oversize Wall Map of Galveston in 1876 The Preferred Issue, with Illustrated Ads Surrounding Map Click for full description with images	“A magnificent map”—Streeter “The map was apparently quite popular and seems to have been used roughly, for few copies have survived”—Graff Exceedingly Rare Large-Scale Map of the Western Mining Frontier 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	“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	Alternate Version of Trost’s Iconic Spindletop Photo Click for full description with images

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