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Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country: Together with the Principal Incidents of Fifteen Years Revolution in Mexico: and Embracing A Condensed Statement of Interesting Events in Texas, from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Year 1840.
by Colonel Edward Stiff
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Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country: Together with the Principal Incidents of Fifteen Years Revolution in Mexico: and Embracing A Condensed Statement of Interesting Events in Texas, from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Year 1840.
Hardcover Cloth 368 pages. Condition Fine Mylar-protected Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First Texian Press edition 1968. Attractive maroon boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket with mylar cover smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in facisimile map of Texas land grants c1840 by George Conclin of Cincinatti.
The Texan Emigrant was originally published in 1840. Edward Stiff came to Texas from Baltimore and was employed for a short time as a Deputy Constable for the City of Houston.
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- Seller
- River House Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 656996
- Title
- Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country: Together with the Principal Incidents of Fifteen Years Revolution in Mexico: and Embracing A Condensed Statement of Interesting Events in Texas, from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Year 1840.
- Author
- Colonel Edward Stiff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Texian Press
- Place of Publication
- Waco, TX
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Texana; First Editions;
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I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
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