Houston: E.H. Cushing, Nov. 26, 1862. [2]pp. Newspaper broadsheet. Old folds, some chipping at edges. Contemporary ownership inscription at top edge. Light tanning. A Confederate dated issue of this scarce Texas newspaper. It contains much news on developments in the Civil War, such as action from Tennessee and Indiana, in..... More

Houston: 1950. Map, 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined, with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. More

New York; Fort Worth: 1921-1923. Eight single page typed letters and documents. Previously folded. Light wear. This group of eight typed letters and documents a potential stock swindle as the Texas Petroleum Company claimed to absorb the Allied Petroleum Corporation at the end of 1922 and the beginning of 1923..... More

Austin: Baldwin & Sons for the Chamber of Commerce, [1916]. [20]pp. Original gilt pictorial wrappers. Light wear and sunning to wraps. Some foxing and soiling internally. Rare promotional pamphlet for the city of Austin during the mid-1910s, published for its Chamber of Commerce. The work contains many photographic reproductions of..... More

Galveston: Gustav Feist Co., 1906. [17] leaves. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped and separated along spine. Leaves evenly tanned, with an occasional fox mark. Rare photographic promotional for Galveston, Texas, published only a few years after the 1900 hurricane devastated the city. The work contains sixteen Albertypes of city views, concentrated..... More

Fort Worth: T.P. Martin, Jr. & Co., 1886. Vol. 1, No. 1. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Light wear, a few small chips at edges. The first issue of this short-lived Texas periodical on stamps and stamp collecting, edited by B.G. Chaney. The feature article is titled “Advice of a...... More

Waco: 1944. 4pp., on a bifolium. Light, even tanning. Unrecorded promotional for a night of wrestling to take place at a theater in Waco during the summer of 1944. The main event was a "nothing barred, no time limit" return match between Nell Stewart and Rose Evans, both of whom..... More

New Braunfels, Tx. 1902. [32]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Light toning internally. Scarce, first edition of this early 20th-century promotional for New Braunfels, Texas, and the businesses operated there by the Landa Estate. By the end of the 19th century, the Landa family..... More

New York: 1830. Broadside form, approximately 12.5 x 8.25 inches. Formerly mounted, with some adhesive remnants at top edge. Light creasing at lower edge. Faint foxing. A subscription form for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which sought to attract colonists to land granted to Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph..... More

Sioux City: 1878. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of..... More

[Dallas: 1936]. Four items, including two folding pamphlets, one typed letter, signed, and an envelope. Light wear and tanning. Interesting and colorful promotional material for Rock Island Plow Company of Dallas and Oklahoma. A large folding poster printed in red and yellow depicts the two most popular plow models, "built..... More

Houston: W.H. Coyle, 1877. 143,104,[1],4pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap detaching, spine chipped, a couple of short closed tears at wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. Light tanning, scattered faint foxing. Scarce proceedings of the 1877 convention of Texas masons held in Houston. An extensive record of minutes..... More

Austin: State Highway Commission, 1937. Folding map, 26 x 31.25 inches. Light wear and a few minor separations along folds. Light toning. An attractive, color-printed map of the state highway system in Texas as it was in 1937, with eleven inset maps of the major arteries into and around the..... More