Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 104
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(TEXAS.) [Lang, William W.] Texas: Her Resources and Capabilities. 18 plates, plus a duplicate of one plate; lacks the folding map. 255 pages. 8vo, modern wrappers but with the original wrappers within, original wrappers stained, minor foxing. New York, 1881

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Presumably a much enlarged and improved version of Lang's more common A Paper on the Resources and Capabilitites of Texas, published the same year. "Published by the South Western Immigration Company of Austin. Much on West Texas, the Panhandle, the cattle industry, and an interesting reference to petroleum which traces the course of an underground river of oil"--Eberstadt 128:531.