TEXAS. OBSERVATIONS, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, WRITTEN DURING A VISIT TO AUSTIN'S COLONY, WITH A VIEW TO A PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN THAT COUNTRY, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1831.
Holley, Mary Austin
Published by Armstrong & Plaskitt, Baltimore, 1833
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167pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original purple cloth with "Texas" stamped in gilt (within a gilt frame) on front cover. Cloth faded from purple to a brown tone, and with some light staining. Light foxing. A very good copy, in unsophisticated condition. In a cloth chemise and half green morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. The rare first edition of the first book in English devoted entirely to Texas. The fine "Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas" is by W. Hooker and displays the region from just east of New Orleans to a degree west of Santa Fe, and north from the mouth of the Rio Grande to just above the 38th parallel. Mrs. Holley was the cousin of Stephen F. Austin, to whom the book is dedicated, and Jenkins states that it was written with his assistance. Mrs. Holley travelled from the mouth of the Brazos River to Bolivar to aid her brother, Henry, in making his home there. She found Texas "very like a dream or youthful vision realized." Her work on this book was followed closely and approved by her brother and cousins. The book is, in the words of Thomas W. Streeter, "one of the Texas classics." Copies with the map - and in unsophisticated condition, as here - are rare indeed. STREETER TEXAS 1135. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 93A. RAINES, p.116. HOWES H593, "b." SABIN 32528. CLARK III:56. DOBIE, p.51. RADER 1912. GRAFF 1934. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 60. Seller Inventory # WRCAM54933
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Texas. Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive, In a Series of Letters, Written during a Visit to Austin's Colony, with a view to a permanent settlement in that country, in the Autumn of 1831. By Mrs. Mary Austin Holley. With an appendix, Containing specific answers to certain questions, relative to Colonization in Texas, issued some time since by the London Geographical Society. Also, some notice of the recent political events in that quarter
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. First edition.Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833.Duodecimo in 6s (6 13/16" x 4 3/8", 173mm x 110mm). [Full collation available.]Bound in the publisher's plum glazed cloth. Title gilt within a cartouche to the front board. Cloth splitting at the hinges, but structurally sound (end-papers renewed?). Some sunning at the spine. Foxed throughout, as usual. Some little splits and folds to the lower edges, not affecting the text. Lacking the folding engraved map, which is supplied in facsimile. Presented in a cloth clam-shell box. Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846) was born in New Haven, and so is perhaps unlikely as the author of "the first book in English entirely on Texas" (Streeter). After the death of her father, she was adopted by her mother's brother Timothy Phelps and his wife Jennett (of Janet; née Broome). The arrival of her cousin, "Father of Texas" Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) as an eleven-year-old also staying with the Phelpses would change the course of her life. She married Horace Holley and moved with him to Lexington, Kentucky for his tenure president of Transylvania University (Austin was a student there, graduating in 1810). She received a land grant on Galveston Bay -- the "Old Three Hundred" received land grants from Austin's Colony -- but never resided there. She traveled the state in 1831 and produced the present work, an epistolary account of the beauty and diversity of Texas. She was a tireless advocate for American annexation, and died seven months after its admission to the Union. Hooker's map one of the most thorough of the territory, along with Holley's superlatively laudatory prose, make the book one of the greatest siren-calls for emigration to and settlement in Texas. Graff 1934; Howes H 593; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 93; Sabin 32528; Streeter, Texas 1135. Seller Inventory # JLR0593
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TEXAS. OBSERVATIONS, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, WRITTEN DURING A VISIT TO AUSTIN'S COLONY, WITH A VIEW TO A PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN THAT COUNTRY, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1831.
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The rare first edition of the first book in English devoted entirely to Texas. The fine "Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas" is by W. Hooker and displays the region from just east of New Orleans to a degree west of Santa Fe, and north from the mouth of the Rio Grande to just above the 38th parallel. Mrs. Holley was the cousin of Stephen F. Austin, to whom the book is dedicated, and Jenkins states that it was written with his assistance. Mrs. Holley travelled from the mouth of the Brazos River to Bolivar to aid her brother, Henry, in making his home there. She found Texas "very like a dream or youthful vision realized." Her work on this book was followed closely and approved by her brother and cousins. The book is, in the words of Thomas W. Streeter, "one of the Texas classics." Copies with the map - and in unsophisticated condition, as here - are rare indeed. STREETER TEXAS 1135. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 93A. RAINES, p.116. HOWES H593, "b." SABIN 32528. CLARK III:56. DOBIE, p.51. RADER 1912. GRAFF 1934. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 60. 167pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original purple cloth with "Texas" stamped in gilt (within a gilt frame) on front cover. Cloth faded from purple to a brown tone, and with some light staining. Light foxing. A very good copy, in unsophisticated condition. In a cloth chemise and half green morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Seller Inventory # 54933
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Texas. Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive, In a Series of Letters, Written during a Visit to Austin's Colony, with a view to a permanent settlement in that country, in the Autumn of 1831. By Mrs. Mary Austin Holley. With an appendix, Containing specific answers to certain questions, relative to Colonization in Texas, issued some time since by the London Geographical Society. Also, some notice of the recent political events in that quarter
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Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. First edition. Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833.Duodecimo in 6s (7" x 4 1/16", 177mm x 104mm). [Full collation available.]With an engraved folding map by W. Hooker (second state).Bound in the publisher's pink glazed cloth (re-backed). Title gilt within a cartouche to the front board.Re-backed, with the joints and preliminaries strengthened. Fore-corners bumped, with some wear at the edges. Foxed, with some peripheral tanning through quire 2. A repaired stub-tear to the map, which is otherwise a fresh example.Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846) was born in New Haven, and so is perhaps unlikely as the author of "the first book in English entirely on Texas" (Streeter). After the death of her father, she was adopted by her mother's brother Timothy Phelps and his wife Jennett (of Janet; née Broome). The arrival of her cousin, "Father of Texas" Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) as an eleven-year-old also staying with the Phelpses would change the course of her life. She married Horace Holley and moved with him to Lexington, Kentucky for his tenure president of Transylvania University (Austin was a student there, graduating in 1810). She received a land grant on Galveston Bay -- the "Old Three Hundred" received land grants from Austin's Colony -- but never resided there. She traveled the state in 1831 and produced the present work, an epistolary account of the beauty and diversity of Texas. She was a tireless advocate for American annexation, and died seven months after its admission to the Union. Hooker's map (a second state, with Hooker's name below the title), one of the most thorough of the territory, along with Holley's superlatively laudatory prose, make the book one of the greatest siren-calls for emigration to and settlement in Texas. Graff 1934; Howes H 593; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 93; Sabin 32528; Streeter, Texas 1135, 1136. Seller Inventory # JLR0591
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Texas. Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive, In a Series of Letters, Written during a Visit to Austin's Colony, with a view to a permanent settlement in that country, in the Autumn of 1831. By Mrs. Mary Austin Holley. With an appendix, Containing specific answers to certain questions, relative to Colonization in Texas, issued some time since by the London Geographical Society. Also, some notice of the recent political events in that quarter
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Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. First edition. Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833.Duodecimo in 6s (7 1/8" x 4 5/16", 181mm x 109mm). [Full collation available.]With an engraved folding map by W. Hooker (second state). Bound in the publisher's plum glazed cloth (re-backed, with some of the original back-strip laid down). Title gilt within a cartouche to the front board.Re-backed, with some of the original back-strip laid down. Sunned at the hinges. Rubbed at the extremities, with wear to the lower front fore-corner. Mild peripheral tanning throughout, and a pale damp-stain to the gutter but an unusually fresh example without foxing.Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846) was born in New Haven, and so is perhaps unlikely as the author of "the first book in English entirely on Texas" (Streeter). After the death of her father, she was adopted by her mother's brother Timothy Phelps and his wife Jennett (of Janet; née Broome). The arrival of her cousin, "Father of Texas" Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) as an eleven-year-old also staying with the Phelpses would change the course of her life. She married Horace Holley and moved with him to Lexington, Kentucky for his tenure president of Transylvania University (Austin was a student there, graduating in 1810). She received a land grant on Galveston Bay -- the "Old Three Hundred" received land grants from Austin's Colony -- but never resided there. She traveled the state in 1831 and produced the present work, an epistolary account of the beauty and diversity of Texas. She was a tireless advocate for American annexation, and died seven months after its admission to the Union. Hooker's map (a second state, with Hooker's name below the title), one of the most thorough of the territory, along with Holley's superlatively laudatory prose, make the book one of the greatest siren-calls for emigration to and settlement in Texas. Graff 1934; Howes H 593; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 93; Sabin 32528; Streeter, Texas 1135, 1136. Seller Inventory # JLR0592
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