Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Ayer credits this work as giving a “thorough treatment of the subject. Extensive synonymies, distribution of species, specimens dsecured on United States government expeditions, field notes on habits, and descriptions of new species and genera, with occasional analytical keys have made an authoritative..... Read More about Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden, U. S....

New York: The Derrydale Press, Christmas, 1928. First Edition, number 7 of 100 copies. "On June 19th, 1916, the National Guard was called into Active Service with the prospect of being sent into Mexico. I was...a member...in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry." This copy has bookstamp of George C...... Read More about War without Fighting. Being the experiences of L. Rodman Page, Jr., on the Mexican Border and in...

An excellent sentiment from 1954 Nobel laureate in chemistry Linus Pauling (who was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Sam Rayburn (1882-1961) was a Democratic congressman from Texas, 1913-1961; he was Speaker of the U.S. House for three stretches during his incumbency, 1940-1947, 1949-1953, 1955-1961 and..... Read More about Autograph Note, Signed “To my fellow scientist Alfred Eisenstaedt Linus Pauling 12 November...

[Washington D.C: Government printing office, 1867]. Read More about Message from the President of the United States, Communicating ... information in relation to ......

Albany, New York: Published by J.B. Lyon Company, 1936. First edition. In Dust Jacket. "The work was published for private subscription, and has a great deal of fishing and relative information. Very scarce" (Bruns) Dedicated to Thomas Hitchcock. Read More about A Sporting Family of the Old South. With which is included Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman by...

New York: Texas Siftings Publishing Company, 1882. First collected edition of these bits and pieces from “Texas Siftings” with editorial comments. A humorous collection. Read More about Sketches from “Texas Siftings”

[N.p., New York: ca. 1903]. Published in Ainslee’s Magazine, February 1903; collected in Roads of Destiny (1909). SIGNED. A Texas story by O. Henry from early in his New York years. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) had variously been bank teller, pharmacy clerk, and Texas newspaperman before his conviction on several..... Read More about Art and the Broncho. Author’s Autograph Manuscript signed (“Sydney Porter” and “Olivier...

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1871. Scarce, with six examples located by OCLC and no copies in the auction records for the last half century. The Texas & Pacific Railroad was organized in March 1871 to build a southern transcontinental route from Marshall, Texas to San Diego, California. The present..... Read More about Report Made to the President and Executive Board of the Texas Pacific Railroad

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837. First edition. “annexation of Texas… would be madness“. Channing believed that the annexation would be disastrous for the Union, from extending and perpetuating slavery, worrying that extending the borders might loosen the fabric of the nation, and would “exert a disastrous influence on the..... Read More about A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States

Austin: June 12, 1860. "Littleton was the Karnes County delegate to the Secession Convention, January 28, 1860, through February 4, 1861. When the United States troops evacuated the forts on the Rio Grande, his sixty-man company, described by the Clarksville Northern Standard as "well mounted, well armed, and well posted..... Read More about Partly printed treasury warrant, issued for "protection of the frontier ... for services...

Republic of Texas, County of Montgomery: 25 February 1846. Texas Slave Trade. Document acknowledging receipt of seven hundred dollars from Samuel N. Rourk in exchange for “a certain negro man, George, slave for life” confirming that George is “sound in body and mind, except a trifling nearsightedness.” Docketed on verso..... Read More about Autograph receipt, bill of sale for a slave, signed “Harrold Smith,” also with the “scrawl...

Austin, Texas: R.W. Swindells, State Printer, 1884. Read More about General Laws of the State of Texas, Passed at the Special Session of the Eighteenth Legislature,...