Search Results: Titles starting with V from Maggie Lambeth

United States Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1853. Original. Flat. FINE.. Extracted from the exploration of the 35th Parallel. Full sheet 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore. Beige and blue tint. See Robert Taft - Artists and Illustrators of the Old West p.21. n 1853, Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen was named an artist for the government surveys to establish a railway route to the Pacific. He was specifically assigned to the 35th parallel expedition (under the command of Lt. Whipple) which left Arkansas in 1853 and traversed Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and California's Mojave Desert. The Company arrived in the west coast of California (Los Angeles) on March 21, 1854. This original lithograph, of the "Valley of La Cuesta, Rio Pecos" designed by H. B. Mollhausen, was created on this expedition. The Cibolero Trail entered the Rio Pecos valley at La Cuesta, current day Villanueva, returning from the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico and the “High Plains” of Texas.That region's history… Read More

Fort Worth: Amon Carter, 1972. First ed. Paperback. FINE. 1 of 3,000, 64pp., pon, illus., 4to square color pictorial white wraps Naive American painter, who documents life as he remembered it during early development of country life in East Texas

Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD.. 76pp., index, notes, full color plates include the Guadalupe Retreat (by the residence of Mr. De Cordova's) as well as several charming paintings in San Antonio and other Texas river scenes. No names, oblong color pictorial white wraps. No names, no writing. Review Slip laid-in. She was a New Yorker who seemed taken with Texas.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1999. First Edition. FINE /FINE. Color plates printed on coated stock, b/w photographs, black end papers, 320pp., bibliography, index, biographies of contributors., foreword by J.P. Bryan. Gilt-embossed 4to rust cloth, color pictorial dust jacket price unclipped in archival mylar cover. Chapters on the art of The Cowgirls, Evolution of the Spur, Fiestas, Missionary Led Indian Communities, Natives of the North American Plains, Black West with excellent selection of art, the Search for Texas, Ex-Votos, Santos, and 45 color photos of spurs, etc.

Austin: Steck, 1952. First Edition. Fine Slipcase. FINE. A Facsimile, (1834) color folding map of the State of Coahuila and Texas by Hooker, 4 plates, 264pp., dark green cloth, gilt decorated spine, matching slipcase light fade. Jenkins -BASIC TEXAS 209B- "The unknown author arrived in Brazoria in 1831, objective, even caustic....material was stolen without credit by David B. Edward and others and plagiarized by Sealsfield in The Cabin Book."

London: John Stockdale, 1807. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Illustrated with plates: Plate VI - folding Plan of Lima; Plate VII - folding Plan of Cape St. Francois (with illus of horsemen roping cattle). Leather covers deteriorated and detached. Volume II only lacking volume I. 419pp., text clean and tight, plus index and title pages foxed. Marbled edges. Modern abridgement of Relacion historica del viage a la America, 5 v. Description of Gauchos working in Peru. See GRIFFIN 2865 - "A distinguished work recording the observations of two young naval lieutenants attached to the French scientific expedition to South America. Invaluable not only as an account of their travels in the years 1735-1744 but also for its data on the geography, ethnology, natural resources and social life of the colonies and as a record of the Condamine expedition.