Dorothy Sloan -- Rare Books

Very Rare First Printing of the First Official Map of Texas as a State On a Large Scale & Signed by De Cordova in Ink & with His Rubric 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	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.”	Very Rare Immigration Map of British Canada with Strong Political Implications 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		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
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	“Considered the first encyclopedia of the Americas”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg 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
Major Scientific Publication in New Spain. With Illustrated Xochicalco Supplement 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	Salva's Superb Copy of Missa Gothica seù Mozarabica Click for full description with images
“Milestones in the mapping of the American West”—Wheat Boots on the Ground & Maps in the Gun Barrels 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 First Book of Mexican Authorship Printed in Europe, with Superb Engravings 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	Rare & Extraordinarily Detailed Map of the Lower Mississippi River in the Civil War 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

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