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Texas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCnhardt WallFrom the Sublime to the RidiculousDOROTHY SLOAN-RARE BOOKS • AUCTION EIGHTEEN Wednesday, February 15, 2006,4 p.m.Grand Salon: Bel Age Hotel, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069EXHIBITIONMonday. February 13. 2006. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Standard TimeTuesday, February 14, TEXAS_~1.DOC2006, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Standard TimeDorothy Sloan-Rare Books. Inc. • Box 4825 Austin, Texas 78765-4825 • Phone 512-477-8442 • Fax 512-477-860TEXAS_~1.DOC
2rarebooks(ạ>sloanrarebooks.com • www.sloanrarebooks.comIMPORTANT NOTICEPlease note that all lots are sold subject to the Conditions of Sale and LimitTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCspective bidders should review the Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty. All bidders without exception must registerSeating at the auction will be limited. Only registered bidders with reservations may attend the live auction Please phone, fax. or e-mail for a seating reservation if you plan to a TEXAS_~1.DOCttend the live auction Online bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.com and eBayLiveAuctions.com. We will be pleased to execute your live phoneTEXAS_~1.DOC
bids or confirmed absentee bids without charge and without responsibility for errors and subject to the Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty as seTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCMajor Iconography for the Southwest & Borderlands1. ABERT, J[ames] w[illiam]. Report of the Secretary of War... Report and Map of the Examination of New Mexico...... [Washington,1848]. 30th Congress, First Session, Senate Executive Document, No. 23. 132 pp., 24 lithographs, folding lithograph map of TEXAS_~1.DOC New Mexico + 11 lithographs from Abert's 1846 report (Message...Report of an Expedition...on the Upper Arkansas and through the Country of the ComancTEXAS_~1.DOC
he Indians, in the Fall of the Years 1845). Total: 35 lithograph plates with exceptionally beautiful watercoloring. The coloring of the plates is in tTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCin the Beinecke Library at Yale. This is an extra illustrated and annotated copy, with extensive manuscript corrections, especially of botanical and Spanish words, apparently in Abert's hand, and pencil notes on most plates indicating proper placement of plates within text. Signed "Abert" on first p TEXAS_~1.DOClate. 8V0, modern full green levant morocco, spine gilt-lettered, raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Light intermittent foxing. UpTEXAS_~1.DOC
per inner corners with light waterstaining barely into plates. Text and plates trimmed (a few plates shaved with occasional loss of a few letters of tTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCe coloring of the lithos quite lovely, fresh, and bright. The w. J. Holliday copy, with his bookplate tipped in (front pastedown with evidence of removal of former bookplate).Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country Report, 1846 (11 plates): Bennett, American Nineteenth Color Plate Books, p. 1: "Very fin TEXAS_~1.DOCe colored lithographic plates. This item appears in two forms, colored and uncolored, and the colored copies have long been in substantial demand." GrTEXAS_~1.DOC
aff 6. Howes AID. Matthews, p. 297. Plains & Rockies IV:120. Raines 1: "Significant and important." Sabin 59. Streeter Sale 161 (Abert's copy, now at Texas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOC is an important early lithograph view of Texas.New Mexico Report, 1848 (printed report, map, and 24 plates): First edition of an early official U.S. publication relating to New Mexico. Graff 5. Howes All. Pilling 2. Rader 3344. Raines, p. 1: "Canadian Valley of Texas was part of region traversed an TEXAS_~1.DOCd described." Rittenhouse 2: "A basic Santa Fe Trail document." Sabin 57. Streeter Sale 168: "First printed map of New Mexico made public by the War DTEXAS_~1.DOC
epartment." IV:143. wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 532. This report contains Abert's journal of the expedition from Fort Leavenworth to SantTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCstern geography and containing some of the very first regional views. Abert's report includes valuable observations and illustrations of Hispanic and Native American cultures of the Borderlands.The upper Arkansas Report was available (but is rarely found) with the lithographs tinted by the lithograp TEXAS_~1.DOCher. Abert, however, complained that the copies $0 colored contained errors, especially in the coloring of the flowers (see Holliday sale Lot 4 whereTEXAS_~1.DOC
this problem is mentioned). Because two of the plates of this report present here have yucca flowers incorrectly colored yellow, it seems possible thaTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCd, the flowers are correctly colored white, which gives rise to the presumption that they were colored by someone with first-hand knowledge about Southwestern botany. This copy, except for the map, seems actually to have been assembled, annotated, and signed by Abert, whose signature appears on one TEXAS_~1.DOCof the plates from the Upper Arkansas Report, with the yucca incorrectly colored. It seems clear that Abert assembled this volume before it was bound,TEXAS_~1.DOC
because his annotations are trimmed. Possibly, in assembling this volume Abert used plates tinted by the lithographer in addition to those that he coTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCnternet exhibit "The Illustrating Traveler" assembled in 1996 by William s. Reese and George Miles for the Beinecke Library at Yale: http://WWW.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/spirit2.htm and http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/native3.htm. See also Reese and Miles, Creating America 34 & 114 ( TEXAS_~1.DOCcolor illustration at p. 85)MapMap of the Territory of New Mexico, Made by order of Brig. Gen. s. w. Kearny, under Instructions from Lieut, w. H. EmorTEXAS_~1.DOC
y, U.S.T.E. by Lieut's J. w. Abert and w. G. Peck, U.S.T.E. 1846-7. c. B. Graham's Lithy. Washington [top left]: Data. The road from the direction of Texas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCt. Warner, U.S.T.E. Topographical sketches by Lieut, w. G. Peck, T. E. This map is connected with the map of Senate Document Nn 438; 2nd- session, 29Th Congress. Published by order of the War Department.Uncolored lithograph map. Neat line to neat line: 65 X 50.8 cm; 24-5/8 X 20 inches. Wheat, Mappin TEXAS_~1.DOCg the Transmississippi West 532.PlatesIn order of appearance in this copy:The Pillar Rock on the Canadian. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche CountryTEXAS_~1.DOC
report. Shaved into caption with slight loss of lower portion of letters of title.Valley of the Purgatory. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche CountrTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by Bern TEXAS_~1.DOCSource: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.View of the Santa Fe Road I [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber & c° Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.Trap Dikes I [below line border lower right]: Lith. of E. Weber & c°- Balt. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report. Plai TEXAS_~1.DOCns & Rockies puts imprint at lower left.Scene near Camp f\r 10 Aug 23d I [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber & c° Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche CouTEXAS_~1.DOC
ntry report.View of the dividing ridge between the Canadian & Washita from Camp 48 Oct. 1st- I Lith. of E. Weber & c° Balt. Source: Upper Arkansas andTexas, California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico & the Borderlands:Interesting books, broadsides, maps & ephemeraWith a Selection of Etched Books by BernGọi ngay
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