$3,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. First edition, issue with the dedication on p.(iv) and folding frontispiece map dated "1838." 12mo. (i)-x, [xi & xii blank], (1)-215 [ 216 blank]pp. + folding map. Publisher's dark brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt to spine, with light wear to extremities and minor chipping to spine ends, some foxing to text block and folding map. 19th-century W.A. Leary's, Philadelphia bookseller's label on front paste down. Howes N-115; Graff 3010; Sabin 5498.
One of the earliest books published about Texas after it became a republic, an important source for our knowledge of the early republic of Texas.