HISTORY OF TEXAS FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1685 TO ITS ANNEXATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1846.

2 volumes. Rare First Edition. Most of the 1855 First Edition copies perished in a warehouse fire. Illustrated with four engraved portrait plates, an engraved plate of the Museum of San Jose as frontispiece, three single page maps, a folding facsimile and a large folding map of Texas. Thick 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter dark olive-green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments with gilt panels incorporating gilt tooled corner pieces and gilt stops, tow compartments paneled and lettered in gilt, marbled end-leaves and edges to match, a very pleasing binding. 482; 576 pp. A very well preserved and pleasing copy, the bindings in excellent condition, very handsome, strong and tight, the text-block of Vol. I somewhat mellowed or lightly browned as is typical, some old marginal evidence of dampstains towards the front of Vol. I, but generally not obtrusive and quite acceptable, the text-block of Vol. II quite bright and clean and without the mellowing generally associated with the first volume, the plates in good order, the plate of Stephen Austin repeated in Vol.I, an fine example of the very elusive first edition.