$5,000
London: Smith, Elder, 1842. 8vo, modern 3/4 red morocco, gilt-lettered spine, renewed endpapers, large frontispiece fold-out map hand-colored in outline and 24 pp. of publisher's ads at rear. First edition of this harsh criticism of the newly formed Republic of Texas, which Maillard calls: "a country filled with habitual liars, drunkards, blasphemers, and slanderers; sanguinary gamesters and cold-blooded assassins; with idleness and sluggish indolence, with pride..." "The most vitriolic denunciation of the Republic of Texas [comprising] a compendium of everything bad that could be claimed about Texas and Texans of those times." (Basic Texas Books) "The map is the best feature of the book, for among its classifications shown in colored lines are the political boundaries of Texas under Spain and the territory now absolutely in the possession of the Texians." (Streeter) Very light soiling to title page; otherwise a fine copy of this rare and controversial book.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10