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A Description of Texas Its Advantages and Resources With Some Account of their Development Past Present and Future
188124269St. Louis: Gilbert Book Co 1881. Hardcover. Good. 8vo x 17-133 pp with frontis portrait of Roberts with 8 chromolithograph plates and 5 lithograph maps 4 of which are hand-colored in original publisher's cloth. Boards show considerable insect nibbling and some soiling and p. 131/132 was detached at some time and reinserted backwards Otherwise internally sound and clean with all plates and maps in nice condition. Roberts was the 17th Governor of Texas and this promotional book about the state was published while he was still in office. Clark Travels in the New South I:185: "Roberts.had traveled over the state as a lawyer 1841-60 and after the war had settled down and taught law. This is a worth-while account somewhat historical and somewhat exaggerated of the the resources and advantages of Texas by one who was familiar with the state." Howes R-344. Gilbert Book Co hardcover
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