Woodman, David:

$10,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

GUIDE TO TEXAS EMIGRANTS. Woodman wrote this guidebook, one of the first in English devoted to Texas, to serve the purposes of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company and their promotion of lands in Texas. Part of the text of Woodman's book is pure promotional. It also contains a discussion of the various land grants in Texas, speeches and official reports on Texas, accounts of travellers' visits there, and testimonial letters from settlers. The engraved plate is captioned "The Buffalo Hunt" and is after a painting by A. Fisher.A rare and important Texas guide, with a most important map of Texas, seldom met with.

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