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Item #40507 The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's, Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions of that Country: Geographically Arranged From Personal Observations And Experiences. David Barnett EDWARD, Edmund Francis, LEE, Author, Cartographer.
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The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's, Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions of that Country: Geographically Arranged From Personal Observations And Experiences
The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's, Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions of that Country: Geographically Arranged From Personal Observations And Experiences

The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant's, Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions of that Country: Geographically Arranged From Personal Observations And Experiences

Cincinnati: J. A. James and Co. Printed by Doolittle and Munson, 1836. 12mo. (7 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches). First edition. [i]-xii 13-336. 336 pp. Folding engraved frontispiece "Map of Texas containing the Latest Grants and Discoveries" by Lee hand-colored in outline with leaf of advertisement at rear. An appendix prints the proposed "Constitution of the Mexican United States"

Original brown cloth. Spine with a facsimile paper label

First edition of this early and important work on Texas, with the Map of Texas.

"The map shows towns, rivers, colonies, grants, Indian villages, mountains, roads, silver mines in Mexico and on the San Saba River, iron ore, copper mine, note on Col. B.R. Milam's death, comments on wild life and topography, salt works on Galveston Bay, site of General Toledo's defeat in 1813....There is also a printed note by D.B. Edwards on the Rio del Norte, its navigability and its possibilities as a southwestern boundary for Texas" - Day. "As a preceptor of Gonzales Seminary and resident of Texas, Edward was well equipped to record his observations accurately" - Graff. "This contemporary history by Edward, notwithstanding some idiosyncrasies of the author, is one of the essential Texas books. It gives a good account of the physical features and towns and products of the Texas of 1835...page 177 to the end are devoted to the political events from 1832 to about October, 1835..." - Streeter. "Conditions just prior to the Revolution described by an actual observer" - Howes.

Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 53; Clark, Old South iii:35; Day, Maps of Texas 388; Graff 1208; Howes E-48, "aa"; Rader 1279; Raines, p.74; Reese, Best of the West 65; Sabin 21886; Streeter Texas 1199; Streeter Sale 1: 344.

Item #40507

Price: $6,000.00

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