(Texas) — Woodman, David, Jr. | Woodman's Guide to Texas, with the rare map

Property from the Texana Collection of Howard Wilcox

(Texas) — Woodman, David, Jr.

Guide to Texas Emigrants. Boston: Printed by M. Hawes for the Publishers, 1835

In 6s (181 x 112 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map of "The Colonization Grants to Zavala, Vehlein & Burnet in Texas" by S. Stiles & Co., with the three grants handcolored in yellow, pink, and green, respectively, steel-engraved plate of a buffalo hunt after A. Fisher by W. E. Tucker; map offset and with short marginal fold separation, occasional light browning. Publisher's blue pebbled cloth; rebacked preserving portions of original spine, corners worn, lightly soiled. Half blue morocco folding-case.

First edition of a scarce Texas guide book. A promotional publication of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which controlled the Burnet, Vehlein, and Zavala grants. The accompanying map, which features the grants, also includes an inset plan of the Port of Galveston, made by Alexander Thompson of the Mexican Navy.

REFERENCE:

Clark, Old South 3:117; Fifty Texas Rarities 12; Day, Maps of Texas 66; Graff 4737; Howes W647; Phillips, American Sporting Books, p. 413; Rader 3731; Raines p. 222; Sabin 105111; Streeter, Texas 1177; Streeter sale 2:1177

PROVENANCE:

George Nock (signature on front pastedown, 1874) — William Robertson Coe (Yale bookplate) — "The Texas Independence Collection" (Sotheby's New York, 18 June 2004, lot 15)