Considerant, Victor:

$7,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

AU TEXAS. The rare first edition of Considerant's important account of the failed French Utopian socialist experiment near Dallas in the early 1850s, with a notable Texas map. The text includes a detailed discussion of the character and ethnic makeup of the population in Texas, the value of lands, climate, agricultural productions, etc. "Optimistic report of his visit to Texas and colonization plans. As a result of these extravagant promises, Considerant was able to acquire 57,000 acres near Dallas and to establish there—at Reunion—his Fourier communal experiment" - Howes."This is an eminent philosopher's account of Texas and his audacious plans for a socialist colony there, the direct result of which was the establishment of La Reunion Colony near Dallas....In 1853 Considerant journeyed by horseback through Texas, and he returned to Europe full of plans for creating a Utopian socialist colony there" - BASIC TEXAS BOOKS. "Considerant proved to be a good observer. More than three-fourths of the book is devoted to Texas. Not only does he give a careful and full description of that state, but...this is a useful travel account and is an unusually full one to have come from a Latin visitor. It does not have the sting that many of the hypercritical accounts of this period contained" - Clark.The folding map of Texas shows the entire state, with Texas' numerous rivers, wagon roads in West Texas, and the Atlantic Pacific Railroad line running from Arkadelphia to El Paso. Cities and to

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