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High Resolution for Printing SLOAN DOROTHY SLOAN–RARE BOOKS AUCTION catalogue TWENTY * Auction catalogue twenty AMERICANA BOOKS, MAPS MANUSCrIPTS * Americana Selection of Pocket Maps. Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books Auction Catalogue Twenty AMERICANA Rare BOOKS, MANUSCrIPTS, Autograph letters, MAPS, Atlases, broadsides ephemera AUCTION to be conducted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 10:00 a.m. at the Joseph & Mildred Rolph Moore Gallery The Society of California Pioneers San Francisco, California Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. 4825 78765 4825 Box , Austin, Texas - * www.sloanrarebooks.com Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. Box 4825, Austin, Texas 78765-9670 Phone 512-477-8442 Fax 512-477-8602 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.sloanrarebooks.com Photography: Tommy Holt at Third Eye Photography (Austin, Texas) Scanned images: Aaron Russell and Peter L. Oliver (Austin, Texas) Design and typesetting by Bradley Hutchinson (Austin, Texas) Offset lithography by AusTex Printing (Austin, Texas) Cover image taken from Item 33 With thanks to Dr. W. Michael Mathes for his excellent consultation on Spanish and Mexican material. Please note: the entire catalogue and additional illustrations are posted at our website: www.sloanrarebooks.com Webmaster & Designer: Aaron Russell Copyright © 2007 Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. AUCTION Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 10:00 a.m. Joseph & Mildred Rolph Moore Gallery The Society of California Pioneers San Francisco, California 94107 EXHIBITION Monday, February 12, 2007, 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Price of printed catalogue: $75.00 plus applicable sales tax Dorothy Sloan, Texas State Auctioneers License #10210 IMPORTANT NOTICE Please note that all lots are sold subject to our Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty, as set forth at the end of this catalogue. As stated in the Conditions of Sale, all lots are sold on an “as is” basis. Prospective bid- ders should review the Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty. All bidders without exception must be reg- istered with us. Seating at the auction will be limited (due to San Francisco city code, space limitations, and our desire to support a nonprofit historical society). Only registered bidders with reservations may attend the live auction. If you plan to attend the live auction, please phone, fax, or e-mail for a seating reservation. Online bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com and eBayLiveAuctions.com. We will be pleased to exe- cute your live phone bids or confirmed absentee bids without charge and without responsibility for errors and subject to the Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty as set forth in this catalogue and on our website. Auction Catalogue Twenty COLOR PLATES Item 2. Early Oklahoma boosterism. Item 7. Bird’s-eye view of a transitional Western fort. Item 8. Grand 1887 promotional lithograph for Kansas City. Item 20. Eye-witness watercolor painting of New Mexico, 1855. Item 25. Watercolor of Redwood scene, 1870. Item 33. Majestic Chimborazo Volcano—the summit of which is the spot farthest from the center of the Earth. Item 33. Magnificent lithograph from Humboldt’s Vues des cordillères. Item 35. William H. Jackson’s early photochromes of Yellowstone. Item 38. Kingsborough’s monumental Antiquities of Mexico. Item 40. First three-color printing in the New World. Item 50. Disturnell Treaty map. Item 57. Rare Gold-Rush era blueback coasting chart of California. Item 62. Rio Grande Western Railway promotional map. Item 64. Map of a mining town that exists only on paper. Item 67. Benchmark Colorado cartography. Item 72. Tanner map from the Treaty Sequence—first with Frémont’s new discoveries. Item 77. “An early and good large scale map of eastern Nebraska” (Streeter). Item 114. Sequoyah Constitution—Denied by the U.S. Item 137, detail. Exceedingly rare signature of the “Apostle of Texas”. Signed by the Duke of Alburquerque 1. ALBURQUERQUE, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva Enríquez (Duke of ). Printed decree regulat- ing privileges given in exchange for a loan, signed by Alburquerque, text commencing: D. Francisco Fer- nandez de la Cueva Enrriques, Duque de Alburquerque Marqués de Cuellar... Por quanto su M. (que Dios Guarde) se sirvió expeder la Real Cedula del thenor siguiente—EL REY Duque de Alburquerque...Virrey Governador, y Capitan General de las Provincias de la Nueva-España, y Presidente de mi Audiencia Real de México, ò a la persona, ó personas acuyo cargo fuere su Govierno: Atendiendo al servicio que me hizo Don Juan de Barreneche de tres mil pessos escudos de plata.... [at end] Fecho in México à seis de Agosto de mil setecientos y diez años.... Mexico, August 6, 1710. 4 pp. (printed on pp. 1-3), folio, stamped sealed paper dated 1710- 1711. Boldly signed by the Duke of Alburquerque. With other official signatures and contemporary ink notations. A few stains and wormed (latter mostly confined to blank margins, although there are a few minor losses to about five words). This royal order is signed by the person for whom the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was named, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva Enríquez (ca. 1655-1733), Marquéz de Cuéllar, the tenth Duke of Alburquerque and viceroy of New Spain from November 17, 1702, to January 14, 1722. In 1706 the Duke of Alburquerque granted to Francisco Cuervo y Valdés the right to settle thirty families at the royal out- post village which became the city of Albuquerque. (The first “r” was dropped sometime in the nine- teenth century.) The town was located in the Rio Grande Valley and was the third town established in New Mexico by the Spanish. ($500-1,000) Early Oklahoma Boosterism 2. ALEXANDRE, Philip L[uce]. Alexandre’s Compendium Facts about Oklahoma City in Detail, Okla- homa Territory in General Kiowa & Comanche Country in Particular. Price, 50 Cents. Oklahoma City, O.T.: Philip L. Alexandre, 1901.[6], 183 [1] pp., 11 photographic plates (scenes & views from the Santa Fe Route), folding map with original color (main map yellow and white; inset in full color): Sectional Map of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservation, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Engraved and Printed by Hud- son-Kimberly Publishing Company, Kansas City, Mo. [below neat line at lower left] Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co. Engr., K.C., Mo. [inset map at top left: Untitled map of south central Oklahoma just north of Wichita Falls, Texas, including Fort Sill], neat line to neat line: 52 x 37.2 cm. 16mo, original brown paper-covered boards, covers gilt-lettered. Fragile boards moderately rubbed with a few losses at joints, extremities and edges, interior and map very fine. First edition? Foreman, Oklahoma Imprints,p.257. Rader 95.Cf.Graff34(209 pp.) Cf. Howes A125 (208 & 209 pp.). Tate, The Indians of Texas 3287 (208 pp. & cited in section on “Western Oklahoma Reservations 1875-1820”). The printing history of this scarce work has never been satisfactorily explained, there apparently having been three different editions in 1901, the year it first appeared. This work is a classic of Oklahoma boosterism, portraying Oklahoma City and the Territory as rapid- ly expanding and offering many of the amenities and opportunities found in larger cities. Alexandre seems primarily interested, however, in pointing out the possibilities for settlers that will arise when various Native American lands are opened to settlement, as is indicated on the map. The last third of the book is devoted almost exclusively to issues of emigration and settlement. There is some brief mention of the oil and ranching industries. Businesses in Oklahoma City are extensively covered (at this point, the city was only a decade old); this is the beginning of an attempt to compile a directory of businesses in the city. One of the reasons Alexandre gives for writing the book was so that he could make money. As the following obituary indicates, it is difficult to say how his novel marketing methods either enriched or impoverished him. From a register of obituaries from Oklahoma City in 1901 (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ ok/oklahoma/vitals/deaths/death1901.txt): old character gone philip l. alexandre dies at the arcade of heart failure The death of Phillip L. Alexandre, an old man, penniless, homeless and almost friendless, occurred yesterday afternoon at the New Arcade hotel on Grand Avenue. Alexandre came here about a year ago and issued a compendium of facts about Oklahoma. He had a number of the books printed which he sold about the streets, subsisting upon the proceeds of his sales. He was a very unique character. He was probably 60 years old and came here from Texas, where he had been engaged in the manufacture of baking powder. There is at this time a baking powder sold in that state which is branded Alexandre’s baking powder. He sold his insti- tution in that country and has been wandering about the country. Alexandre was born on the Isle of Jersey. He had traveled a great deal and was a very fair schol- ar. During his stay here he had been an inveterate drinker, and this no doubt hastened his death which was due to heart failure. A half hour before he died he wrote on a card and handed it to Mr. Smith, the real estate dealer who has an office in the hotel, these words. “Brother Smith, please loan me 50 cents. Don’t let anyone see this. Alec.” The old man had no money nor relatives here to take charge of his remains and they will be cared for by the county. There is no doubt that Alexandre came of good family and that he has seen much better times. His troubles, however, are all over now. (12/3/1901) ($500-1,000) Bradford Atlas with the Large-Format Map of Texas 3.
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