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810. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Knox County. [below title left] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office, do herby certify that this Map is a true and correct copy of the Original Map now in use in this Office Compiled from official data [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh Commissioner. [below title right] Copyright 1879. W.C. Walsh Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas. [lower left above neat line] Lithographed by August Gast & CoS New Process. St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 55 x 45.7 cm; overall sheet size: 60.5 x 50cm. Minor loss to edges with slight insect damage, small loss to lower right, not affecting image. $400.00 La Salle County 811. CASTO, Stanley D. Settlement of the Cibolo-Nueces Strip: A Partial History of La Salle County. Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1969. v [3] 64 pp., photographic and text illustrations. 8vo, printed boards. Boards foxed and spotted, fore-edges foxed, else very good. TC 1151. $50.00 812. CASTO, Stanley D. Settlement of the Cibolo-Nueces Strip: A Partial History of La Salle County. Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1969. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original color wrappers. Wraps sunned. Fine. TC 1151. $50.00 813. LUDEMAN, A.M. La Salle County: South Texas Brush Country 1856-1975. Quanah: Nortex, 1975. viii [2] 224 [11, index][1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper map. 4to, original light green cloth with gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. A few tiny spots to upper cover, upper edge foxed, leaves bumped at fore-edges, else very fine. TC 1150. $95.00 Lamar County 814. NEVILLE, A. W. The History of Lamar County. Paris: North Texas Publishing, 1937. 246 pp., endpaper map. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt-lettered with county outline map and star on upper cover and spine. Light wear to binding, joints rubbed, endpapers lightly browned, light foxing to fore-edges, else very good. CBC 2901 (erroneously dated 1931). Guns 1603: “Scarce.” Herd 1634: “Contains material on John Chisum and his early cattle drives.” TC 1139. $225.00 815. NEVILLE, A. W. The History of Lamar County. Paris: North Texas Publishing, 1937. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, original soft leather, gilt-stamped with outline map and star on upper cover and spine. Spine and corners rubbed, light foxing to upper edge, else fine. $250.00 Lamb County 816. SCOTT, Evalyn Parrott. A History of Lamb County, Featuring Biographies of Pioneers. N.p., 1968. v [1, blank], 281 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper map. 4to, original navy blue pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper cover. Binding rubbed and stained, gilt dulled, top corner bumped, bottom of upper cover dented, endpapers browned on margin (not affecting text), fore-edges foxed, else very good. First edition. TC 1143. TLH, p. 47. $40.00 Lampasas County 817. ELZNER, Jonnie Ross. Lamplights of Lampasas County, Texas. Austin: Firm Foundation Publishing, 1951. [4] ii [1] 6-219 pp., photographic illustrations, maps. 8vo, original green gilt and black pictorial cloth. Binding spotted, boards with slight warp near top fore-edge, fore-edges slightly foxed, else fine. Inscribed and signed by author. First edition. CBC 2923. Guns 676: “Has material on the Horrell-Higgins feud and other lawlessness.” Herd 763. $65.00 818. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Lampasas County. General Land Office Decr 1879. [bottom left above neat line] Copyright 1879, Wm C Walsh, Commissioner Genl Land Office State of Texas | I, W.C. Walsh Commissioner of General Land Office State of Texas, certify this to be a true and correct copy of the map now in use in this office and compiled from official data | Austin December 1879 [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh [bottom center above neat line] Lithographed by August Gast & Cos New Process. St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 44.8 x 60.9 cm; overall sheet size: 46.8 x 63.9 cm. Several small tears along bottom edge of map with tape repairs on board verso, surface of map scratched and soiled, light scattered insect damage to blank margins of map sheet. $375.00 Lavaca County 819. BOETHEL, Paul C. Colonel Amasa Turner: The Gentleman from Lavaca and Other Captains at San Jacinto. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1963. [8] 168 pp., portrait of Colonel Amasa Turner. 8vo, original black-lettered teal cloth. Fore-edges and endpapers foxed, else very fine in stained, sunned and price-clipped d.j. Inscribed by author to Dudley Dobie. CBC 2938. TC 1154. $115.00 820. BOETHEL, Paul C. Sand in Your Craw. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959. [10] 134 pp. 8vo, original turquoise pictorial cloth decorated in black. Head and foot of spine bumped, fore-edges lightly foxed, stain on top fore-edge affecting text margin only. Very good to fine in heavily chipped d.j. Signed by author. First edition. CBC 2941. Guns 233: “Has information on murders, feuds, cattle rustling, and other lawlessness in Lavaca County.” TC 1156. $65.00 821. BOETHEL, Paul C. The Free State of Lavaca. Austin: Weddle Publications, 1977. vii [1, blank], 184 pp. 8vo, original navy blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Endpapers lightly foxed, else very fine in shelf-worn d.j. with small tears to foot and head of spine. First edition. TLH, p. 48. $125.00 822. HALLETTSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE. Hallettsville and Lavaca County. Hallettsville: Hallettsville Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, n.d. Folding double-sided pamphlet with printed color map on one side, highlighting key locations of Hallettsville, surrounded by advertisements and color photographs. Second side includes smaller map, photographs, advertisements, and textual history of Lavaca County; overall: 43.4 x 27 cm; folded: 21.7 x 57 cm. Light wear. Very fine. $10.00 Lee County 823. FULLER, Henry C. Adventures of Bill Longley, Captured By Sheriff Milton Mast and Deputy Bill Burrows, near Keatchie, Louisiana, in 1877, and Was Executed at Giddings, Texas, 1878. Nacogdoches: Baker Printing, n.d. [76] pp., advertisements. 8vo, original peach wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Wrappers lightly soiled and bumped, light foxing to fore-edges, else fine. Not in CBC. Guns 783: “Scarce.” $135.00 824. JONES, Julia. Lee County: Historical and Descriptive. Houston: Gulf Coast Baptist Print, 1945. 69 [11] pp. 16mo, original orange pictorial wrappers stamped in blank, stapled. Wrappers spotted and stained, light foxing to fore-edges, text browned, very good. CBC 2959. TC 1168. $25.00 825. LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE. History of Lee County, Texas. Quanah: Lee County Historical Survey Committee, 1974. x, 458 [3] pp., endpaper maps, photographic illustrations. 4to, original light blue gilt-lettered cloth. Minor bumps to binding, upper fore-edge foxed, insect stain to fore-edge, else fine. First edition. TLH, p. 48. $95.00 Leon County 826. GATES, J. Y. & H. B. Fox. A History of Leon County, with Informal Sketches and Interviews. Centerville: Leon County News, 1936. [6] 34 [4] pp. 12mo, original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly sunned, fore-edges browned, else very fine. First edition. CBC 2963. TLH, p. 49. Scarce history of the East Texas county. $45.00
CBC 2966. TC 1174. $50.00 828. WOOD, W.D. (comp.). A Partial Roster of the Officers and Men Raised in Leon County, Texas, for the Service of the Confederate States in the War Between the States, with Short Biographical Sketches of Some of the Officers, and a Brief History of Maj. Gould’s Battalion and Other Matters. Waco: W.M. Morrison-Bookseller, 1963. [3] 49 folios. 8vo, original brown gilt-lettered cloth. Light foxing to fore-edges, else fine. CBC 2971b. Limited edition (#160 of 200 numbered copies), reprint edition (first edition n.p., 1899). TC 1173. $55.00 Liberty County 829. PARTLOW, Miriam. Liberty, Liberty County, and the Atascosito District. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1974. [2] 369 [1, blank] pp., endpaper maps, maps, photographic illustrations. 4to, original maroon gilt-lettered cloth. Head and foot of spine bumped, boards slightly warped, fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine in sunned and chipped pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1177. TLH, p. 49. $75.00 830. PICKETT, Arlene. Historic Liberty County. N.p.: Tardy Publishing, 1936. [8] 117 pp., 4 plates. Small 8vo, original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver. Spine rubbed, corners and bottom edge lightly -bumped, fore-edges and endpapers slightly foxed, a few scattered fox marks to text, else very good in chipped and soiled pictorial d.j. Signed by author on title page. First edition. CBC 2986. TC 1175. $125.00 831. PICKETT, Arlene. Historic Liberty County. N.p.: Tardy Publishing, 1936. [8] 117 pp., 4 plates. Another copy, unsigned. Very good, sans d.j. $100.00 832. RATCHFORD, Fannie E. (ed.). The Story of Champ D’Asile As Told by Two of the Colonists. Dallas: Book Club of Texas, 1937. 180 [8] pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Minor foxing to fore-edges, else very fine, unopened, in green cloth slipcase. First edition, limited edition (limited to 300 copies). CBC 2987. $100.00 833. RATCHFORD, Fannie E. (ed.). The Story of Champ D’Asile As Told by Two of the Colonists. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1969. xiv 180 [2] pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. With green cloth slipcase. Spine lightly bumped at head, slipcase with light shelf wear, else very fine. CBC 2987 (1937 edition). Facsimile of 1937 edition. $25.00 834. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 146. Liberty County, December 9, 1850-July 28, 1939. San Antonio: Statewide Records Project, 1941. viii [4] pp., 39 folios, map of Liberty and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Wrappers sunned, mild foxing to fore-edges, fine. Not in CBC. TC 1176. $15.00 Limestone County 835. GROESBECK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The Fall of Fort Parker, May 19, 1836. Groesbeck: Chamber of Commerce, n.d. [4] pp., text illustration, advertisement. Unbound folded sheet, overall sheet: 15.2 x 15.2 cm; folded: 21.7 x 7.6 cm. 9 copies, good to fine. $20.00 836. STEELE, Hampton. A History of Limestone County, Texas: 1833-1860. Mexia: News Publishing, n.d. [3] 37 pp. portrait. 8vo, original pale green printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned, staples rusted, else very fine. First edition. CBC 3012. TC 1181. $40.00 837. WALTER, Ray A. A History of Limestone County. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959. [8] 159 pp. 8vo, original black-lettered tan cloth. Endpapers and fore-edges foxed, else very fine in sunned pictorial d.j. First edition, limited edition (#574 of 1,000 copies, signed). CBC 3016. TC 1180. $95.00 Live Oak County 838. LIVE OAK COUNTRY CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION. Live Oak County Centennial, 1856-1956, May 2-3-4-5, 1956. N.p., 1956. 40 pp., numerous photographic illustrations, advertisements. 4to, original beige printed wrappers, stapled. Very light bumping to corners, else very fine. CBC 3028. $30.00 839. THREE RIVERS CELEBRATION. Three Rivers, Texas. Golden Age of Progress Celebration, History and Program, July 5-6, 1963. Three Rivers, 1963. [3] 80 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original gold wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Wrappers foxed and discolored, fore-edges foxed, else fine. CBC 3030. $35.00 Llano County 840. BARLER, Miles. Early Days in Llano [wrapper title]. [Llano?], n.d. (ca. 1905). 76 pp. 16mo, original brown wrappers. Other than a slight crease to upper wrapper, a fine copy. CBC 3031. Guns 140. Herd 206: “Rare.” Howes B141. Collection of articles originally published in the Llano Times containing reminiscences of an Ohioan who came to Texas in 1850 with the Oatmans and worked as a cowboy in Bastrop County with Grandpa Oatman and then Col. Bunton. After accumulating a hundred head of cattle, he settled in Llano County in 1857. Cowboy life, Indian fights, outlaws, rustlers, bear hunts, Civil War, etc. $85.00 841. OATMAN, Wilburn. Llano, Gem of the Hill Country: A History of Llano County, Texas. Hereford: Pioneer Book, Inc., 1970. [2] x, 196 pp., photographic illustrations, map. 4to, original olive pictorial cloth stamped in black. Binding rubbed, else fine. Signed by author’s children. $75.00 Loving County 842. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Loving County, State of Texas, August 1889. [upper right] I, R.M. Hall, Commissioner of the GenL Land Office do certify that this map is a True and Correct Copy of the Map now in use in this Office compiled from Official Data [facsimile signature] R.M. Hall Commissioner. [upper left] Copyright 1888 R.M. Hall, Commissioner of the GenL Land Office of the State of Texas For Sale at State Land Office Austin Tex Price 50¢: [lower left above neat line] Aug. Gast Bank Note & Litho. Company, Map Publishers. St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1888. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 46.4 x 57.8 cm; overall sheet size: 48.8 x 61 cm. Light foxing. $400.00 Lubbock County 843. BLANKENSHIP, Mary A. The West Is For Us: The Reminiscences of Mary A. Blankenship. Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1958. [2] 125 pp., portraits, illustrations. 8vo, original tan cloth. Spine rubbed, else fine. First edition. Not in CBC. $85.00 Madison County 844. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Madison County, Texas. [lower right below map] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office do certify that the above Map of Madison County is a true and correct copy of the Map now in use in this Office compiled from official data. [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh Commissioner. [lower right above neat line] Copyright 1879, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the Genl Land Office of the State of Texas. [St. Louis: Gast, 1879]. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 39.8 x 52.2 cm; overall sheet size: 43.2 x 56.1 cm. Map surface browned and with stains from adhesive mounting map sheet to board, 2 x 1 cm. chip in upper right blank corner, light scattered insect damage to edges and surface of map sheet, a few small scattered spots. $400.00 Marion County 845. CAMERON, Rebecca M. & Ruth Lester. Jefferson on the Bayou: Glamorous Cultural City of Stern-Wheelers and Wagon Trails. Marshall: Demmer, 1966. [31] [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly spotted and creased, text slightly wrinkled, else fine. $15.00 846. CAMPBELL, Thomas J. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Texas. Nashville: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing, 1936. 230 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original purple suede wrappers with gilt-lettered upper. Wrapper lightly rubbed, endpapers and margins foxed, else very fine. Signed by author. Not in CBC. $50.00 847. CAMPBELL, Thomas J. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Texas. Another copy, unsigned. Wrapper lightly rubbed, endpapers and margins foxed, else very fine. $45.00 848. DEAN, Winnie Mims. Jefferson, Texas: Queen of the Cypress. Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Company, 1953. 80 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, light green cloth with green-lettered upper cover. Slight stain on upper cover, fore-edges browned, else very fine in rubbed and price-clipped pictorial d.j. Signed by author. First edition. CBC 3175. TC 1247. $30.00 849. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Marion County. Texas [lower left above neat line] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office, do certify that the above Map of Marion County is a true and correct copy of the Map now in use in this office, compiled from official data. W.C. Walsh [facsimile signature] Commissioner. [lower right above neat line] Copyright 1879. W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the Genenal [sic] Land Office of the State of Texas. [St. Louis: Gast, 1879]. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 33 x 48 cm; overall sheet size: 35.9 x 51.3 cm. Left blank margin of map sheet browned, a little scattered soiling and a few spots to map sheet. $400.00
First edition. CBC 3183. TC 1242. $40.00 851. MOSELEY, J.A.R. The Presbyterian Church in Jefferson. Austin: [Carl Hertzog for] Texas State Historical Association, 1946. xiii [1, blank], 52 pp., frontispiece and illustrations by Harold Bugbee, facsimile. 12mo, original red pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Light foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, else fine in glassine d.j. First edition, limited edition (675 copies). CBC 3185. History of the East Texas church established in the 1840s, with biographies of pioneer ministers. Lowman 39. $55.00 852. RUSSELL, Traylor. The Diamond Bessie Murder and the Rothschild Trials. Waco: Texian Press, 1971. [2] 183 [1, blank] pp., text and photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth decorated in black and silver. Light foxing to fore-edges, else fine in chipped and shelf-worn blue pictorial d.j. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (1000 copies). TC 1241. $25.00 853. Texas Historical Records Survey. Inventory of the County Archives of Texas. No. 155. Marion County (Jefferson). San Antonio: Texas Historical Records Survey, 1940. [6] 118 pp., map of Marion and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Mild discoloration to wrappers, light wear to fore-edges. Fine. CBC 3180. $15.00 854. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 155. Marion County, May 15, 1860-May 2, 1939. [San Antonio]: Texas Statewide Records Project, 1940. [48] pp., map of Marion and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Wrappers slightly smudged and sunned, else fine. CBC 3179. $15.00 Martin County 855. MARTIN COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. Martin County, Texas: Its Land and Its People, 1881-1978. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1979. 544 pp., photographic illustrations, map, advertisements, photographic endpapers. 4to, original maroon cloth binding with embossed gilt decoration and lettering. Binding slightly smudged, fore-edges and endpapers lightly foxed, else fine. $85.00 856. SMITHSON, Fay Eidson & Pat Wilkinson Hull. Martin County, The First Thirty Years: A Familiar History of Martin County, Texas. Hereford: Pioneer Book, 1970. vii [1, blank], 295 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original brown pictorial cloth, black-lettered on spine and upper cover. Binding lightly rubbed, minor foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, else very fine. First edition. TC 1250. $85.00 Mason County 857. POLK, Stella Gipson. Mason and Mason County: A History. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1966. [10] 119 pp., half title in red, title in red and black, 16 pp. of photographic illustrations (not in pagination). 8vo, original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Endpapers and top edge lightly foxed, else very fine in lightly rubbed d.j. First edition. Guns 1746. TLH, p. 53. $70.00 858. POLK, Stella Gipson. Mason and Mason County: A History. Burnet: Eakin Press, 1980. ix [1] 203 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine gilt. Fine in lightly foxed and shelf-worn pictorial d.j. Signed by author on dedication, contemporary gift inscription from Pauline A. Lemburg to Dudley R. Dobie on front free endpaper. Revised edition. $45.00 Matagorda County 859. BAY CITY LIONS CLUB. Historic Matagorda County in the Heart of the Rich Gulf Coast [wrapper title]. Bay City: Tribune Printing, [1947]. 52 pp., photographic and text illustrations, advertisements. 8vo, original yellow pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wrappers dulled, foxed, and lightly creased, staples rusted, margins foxed, else fine. CBC 3213. TC 1256. $45.00 860. HISTORICAL COMMITTEE OF THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY COMMISSION. The One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Episcopal Church in Texas: Christ Church 1838-1963 Matagorda, Texas. Matagorda, 1963. 12 pp., photographic illustrations, church program laid in. 8vo oblong, original illustrated wrappers, stapled, brown cord tie. Wrappers sunned and rubbed. Very good. $20.00 861. HOLTZ, Helmuth (artist). Hotel at Matagorda, Texas. Hamburg, n.d. (ca. 1860). Pictorial lettersheet, 4 pp. 4to, folded, lithograph on first page (image measures approx. 15.5 x 19 cm). 6 cm tear to right side of image. Very good. First printing. The central scene shows the Colorado House and Main Street, with surrounding vignettes of Church, Masonic Hall, Courthouse, residence of Col. R.H. Williams, and G. Burkhart’s emporium. Will be included in Tyler and Holman’s forthcoming work on 19th-century lithographs of Texas. $125.00 862. JETER, Lorraine Bruce. Matagorda: Early History. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1974. [8] 138 [12] pp., text illustrations, charts, map. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Corners bumped, binding rubbed, gilt dull, light foxing to top edge. Fine. Signed by author. TC 1258. $75.00 863. STIEGHORST, Junann J. Bay City and Matagorda County: A History. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965. [6] 269 [1, colophon] pp., 16 pages of photographic illustrations (not in pagination), endpaper maps. 8vo, original mustard cloth with black- and gilt-lettered spine. Endpapers and fore-edges foxed, margins foxed, else fine in slightly chipped and sunned green pictorial d.j. First edition, limited edition (150 copies). $85.00 Maverick County 864. CAZNEAU, Jane Maria Eliza McManus (pseud. of Cora Montgomery). Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border. New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. [2] 188 [4] pp., advertisements, printed endpapers. 12mo, original embossed brown cloth gilt-lettered spine. Binding well rubbed, spine cracked (but complete), endpapers and margins foxed (not affecting text). Overall, a very good copy. Howes C251. Rader 642. $225.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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