(TEXAS) Stiff Edward The Texan Emigrant

Sale 2287 - Lot 451

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(TEXAS.) Stiff, Edward. The Texan Emigrant. Folding hand-colored map, 2 text illustrations. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked in period style and corners restored; intermittent minor foxing, map reinforced at edges with wear at bottom right edge slightly within border and short separations at folds. Cincinnati, OH, 1840

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first edition. Jenkins describes this as "one of the most controversial guide books written by a visitor to early Texas." Stiff was generally supportive of the Mexican government, and dismissive of the unruly young settlement at Houston. 'Here conventional accounts of the physical features of Texas and of its cities and towns are interspersed with gossipy comments on various named individuals and on life in Texas in general, making it quite an entertaining book"--Streeter, Texas 1367. Clark, Old South III:244; Graff 3989; Howes S998 ('aa"); Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 199; Palau 322527; Raines, pages 195-196 ('An independent thinker . . . one of the best books on Texas issued during the Republic'); Sabin 91727.