Our latest list features twenty-five items relating to the Lone Star State. Highlights include an early Dallas Auto Club guide; a German Texas abolitionist newspaper; several rare and interesting maps; a Fort Worth cook book; manuscripts on cattle brands, including one from a later owner of the Alamo; works on agriculture, land promotion, real estate, insurance, and more. Enjoy!
Download PDF of List #14 - Texas![Item #1153 To the Free-Holders of Rowan & Davie Counties [caption title]. Texas, A. G. Carter](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1153.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1577461737)
[Salisbury, N.C. 1844]. Small broadside, 12.5 x 7.75 inches. Several minor chips at edges. Light, even tanning. A rare campaign broadside for a State Senate candidate in North Carolina, A.G. Carter, which discusses his position on the annexation of Texas. Carter had held his seat representing Rowan and Davie counties..... More
![Item #738 [Ten Original Photographs of McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley]. Texas, John Peter...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB738_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1561595457)
[McAllen, Tx. ca. 1920s]. Ten original photographs, each 5 x 7 inches. Light wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Contemporary pencil initials on versos. A rare group of ten original photographs by early 20th-century Texas photographer John Peter Esklidsen, who worked in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1910s and..... More
Waco: Huff Show Print, [1896?]. 24pp. Stitching perished. Wear and chipping to edges, heavier in upper gutter corner. Toned. The story of Flave J. Weaver and his tale of life behind bars. Born in Fulton County, Illinois in 1867, Weaver was raised in Washington County, Kansas by decent parents. He..... More
San Antonio: Adolf Douai, 1855. [4]pp. Large folio. Previously folded. Contemporary ownership inscription at head of title. Light foxing and creasing. A scarce December 1855 issue of this socialist, abolitionist German Texas newspaper, the San Antonio Zeitung, "Ein sozial-demokratisches Blatt für die Deutschen in West-Texas." "The San Antonio Zeitung... began..... 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
[San Antonio: Martin & Co., [ca. 1890s?]. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Printed on pink paper. Two small, marginal perforation. Light dust soiling. A busy broadsheet flyer with numerous offers of Texas lands from San Antonio agents Martin & Co. Among the advertised deals are over 500,000 acres..... More