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Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![503 1504 84, CHARING Cross ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2. 47 United States—continued. TEXAS DURING THE YEARS OF ITS INDEPENDENCE. NOTES RELATING TO TEXAS, written by FRANK SHERIDAN, Treasurer and Paymaster-General of Mauritus (Appointed to that Colony on May 6th, 1842), who sailed in H.M.S. PILot, under the command of CapTaINn [GEORGE] RAMSAY for TEXAS, via Jamaica, on Sunday, 29th December, 1839. With Interesting Accounts of his Visits to the Seaports: SABINE, GALVESTON, MATAGORDA and ARANSAS ; OBSERVATIONS on the SLAVE QUESTION, the INDIANS, TRADE, CONDITION of the SETTLERS; Extracts from Contemporary Writers on Texas ; together with other Notes relating to BARBADOES, MAURITIUS, CAPE of Goop Hope, his Voyage in H.M.S. Divo in 1842, &c., legibly written on 146 pages, at the beginning and end of the volume (61 leaves in the middle of the volume left blank, the paper water-marked T. Edmonds, 1835), folio, half sheep, 1839-43 £85/-/- Over 100 pages relate to Texas. The “‘ Diary ” extending to 85 pages gives some very interesting original information concerning the question of the acknowledgment of the Independence of Texas by Great Britain ; a possible loan to the Government of Texas ; speaks of the Slave Population and Laws relating to them, “‘ The greater portion of Slaves now in Texas have been drawn from Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee’ . . . mentions such details as “‘ the passion for erecting Grog Shops,” “‘ Destitution of the present land owners who have no money to spend on culti- vation.”’ “I was introduced to General Houston, the Hero of San Jacinto, and a very gentlemenlike fine looking old General he is,”’ arrival of the Brig Nordam Castle from Berwick with intending settlers, &c. Certain particulars given in the manuscript have been authenticated. For example, reference AD/606 Public Record Office original Muster book of H.M.S. Pilot, shows that the ship called at Galveston, Texas, on March 4th, 1840, discharging two A.B.’s and gives names referred to by the writer of the MS. Reference AD 38/8730 Muster Book of H.M.S. Dido, entries dated Jan. 1st to March 31st, 1842, notes “‘ Frank Sheridan, Treasurer of the Island of Mauritus, for passage to the Cape of Good Hope . . . His servant John Latimer, . . . left ship, march 21st 1842.” and Paymaster-General of that Colony, on May 6th, 1842, and the Secretary of State’s dispatch of August 16th, 1841, notifies the appointment to the Governor of the Colony. TURNER-TURNER (J.) THREE YEARS’ HUNTING and TRAPPING in AMERICA and the GREAT NORTH-WEST, portrait, 2 maps (showing the Author’s route and zoo-geographical chart) and numerous illustrations (some full-page) by CONSTANCE HoOaRE, imp. 8vo., pictorial boards, cloth back (binding shabby), 1888 16/- Contains accounts of fishing, bear, caribou, and seal hunting, beaver trapping, &c. U.S. NAVY.—REGISTERS of the COMMISSIONED and WARRANT OFFICERS of the NAvy of the UNITED STATES, including OFFICERS of the MARINE Corps, for the years 1838 to 1847 inclusive, 10 issues, bound in 2 vols, cr. 8vo., contemp. half russia, Washington, 1838-47 £1/10/- Signature of Lieut. George S. Blake, A.N., in each volume. CouNTRY in the TERRITORY of UTAH, surveyed in 1849 and 1850 . . . drawn by LIEUT. GUNNISON and CHARLES PREUSS, measuring 30 by 434 in., mounted on linen, Lithographed by Ackerman, Broadway, New York, [1852] £1/-/- : STANSBURY (CAPT. HOWARD) MAP of a RECONNOISSANCE between FORT LEAVEN- WORTH, on the MISSOURI RIVER, and the GREAT SALT LAKE in the TERRITORY of UTAH, made in 1849 and 1850 . . . the adjacent Country laid down from the latest and most in., mounted on linen, Lithographed by Ackerman, Broadway, New York [1852] £1/5/- Indians. VIRGINIA.—Boyp (C. R.) REsourcEs of SOUTH-WEST VIRGINIA, showing the MINERAL Deposits of [RON, COAL, ZINC, COPPER, and LEAD; also the STAPLES of the various Counties, Methods of Transportations, Access, &c., folding coloured map representing the Geography, Geology, and Topography of the Country and numerous ‘plates, 8vo., cloth (soiled), New York, 1881 8/-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859335_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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