Bloomsbury Auctions has plenty of action this Thursday, Oct 20, if Travel and Natural History is your thing. Interesting lots include an 1826 pair of folding maps, of North and South America, by Adrien Brue; a 1740 history of Jamaica with 2 folding maps; S. A. Mitchell’s 1837 folding map of Illinois; and a 1792 second edition of Jedediah Morse’s American Geography. Good pickings for collectors of folding maps.
Western & Texas Americana
Not to be outdone, PBA Galleries of San Francisco is also in action on Thursday, selling off the Americana library of Ford Mitchell, with plenty of artifacts from both sides of the Mississippi, but especially from Texas. A copy of Emory’s Military Reconnoissance is up for grabs, as is his Map of Texas; also George Wheeler’s 1883 topographical map of Yosemite, amid a wide-ranging collection of books, manuscripts, autograph material and related items. The sale includes manuscripts by George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Houston, Stephen F. Austin and many others, as well as books central to the history of Texas and the United States.
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Antique Texas Maps and Documents
Sizzle in San Francisco
Bidding was fast, furious, and in some cases, very high, at PBA Galleries in San Francisco yesterday. An autograph document signed by Stephen Austin, as Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, with a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-6,000, sold for around $19,000. William Emory’s 1844, Map of Texas, with a pre-sale estimate of $1,000-1,500, cleared more than $8,000. Another autograph letter, signed by James Morgan, estimated at a lowly $700-1,000, garnered a jaw-dropping $34,000 plus. But the lot that had the champagne corks popping at PBA? Lot number 409, a manuscript contract for the founding of the Mercer Colony in Texas, signed by Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas. The pre-sale estimate of $15,000-25,0000 was blown away, as the document’s price smashed through six figures, finally bringing down the hammer in excess of $160,000. (Including premium.) No question at all — Texasiana is hot.
Texasiana is very hot right now!
There is an online auction going on
now for a very detailed 1840 hand drawn surveyors map(brown ink on heavy paper) of the Matagorda Bay
area of Texas(showing among other things, landowners,including Austin)
With a few days left,the bid is currently $3,500
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