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Two Upcoming Auctions


Stephen F. Austin’s 1836 map of Texas, the cornerstone for a collection of Texas maps
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Original ‘Pike’s Peak or Bust’ overland guide * Redpath & Hinton's 1859 Hand-Book to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains’ Gold Region, with maps.
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Dates To Be Announced

Auction 23

Americana:  The Usual Suspects--High Spots of Texas, the West, Mexico & the Borderlands
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Photography, Prints & Ephemera

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The J. Dudley Thompson Collection on the Mexican-American War
Rare Books, Broadsides, Maps, Prints & Ephemera


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Pagès in Original Boards
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“Milestones in the mapping of the American West”—Wheat
Boots on the Ground & Maps in the Gun Barrels
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First Publication of Fifteenth-Century Migration Maps of the Chichimeca
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Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward’s Rare Plate Book
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“Classic Book on Mexico” (Streeter, Texas 1104). Aquatints & Lithos after Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward’s Art Work
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The First Scholarly Description of the Discovery and Attempted Explanation of the Meaning of the “Piedra del Sol”
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Illustrations of Some of the Foremost Surviving Mesoamerican Pictorial Codices
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Earliest Bird’s-Eye View of Laredo listed by Reps
“The Gateway to and from Mexico”
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Very Fine Copy in Original Cloth of Folsom’sMexico in 1842 With an Unusual Map of the Republic of Texas
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Extraordinary Photogravures of Central America & Maya Archaeology
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Original Preliminary Art Work for Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated
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The First Lithograph Plate Book on Mexico
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Peter Maverick’s Very Rare Pocket Map Version of García Conde’s Mexico City
A Superb Copy in Original Full Color
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Alternate Version of Trost’s Iconic Spindletop Photo
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Phillips’ Mexico Illustrated
Issue on Tinted Grounds, Plates Exceptionally Fine
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