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
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	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.”	México y sus alrededores “The most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century” (Mathes) Seven individual albums: introductory essay 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		Exceedingly Rare & Little-Known Plate Book by a Hungarian Aristocrat Lithographs from Very Early Photographs of Venezuela & Mexico 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	“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
The English Venegas “The first book in English completely devoted to California”—Hill 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	Entirely Engraved Book on the Patron Saint of Mexico 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	Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated Issue on Tinted Grounds, Plates Exceptionally Fine 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
First Italian Edition of “the most important map in American history” (Cumming) Choice Original Condition in situ with Raynal’s Influential Text 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	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

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