PRAIRIEDOM: RAMBLES AND SCRAMBLES IN TEXAS OR NEW ESTREMADURA. By a Suthron.

An account of Page's travels, undertaken in the spring of 1839, from the Sabine via Nacogdoches, Houston and Bastrop to San Antonio, returning to Houston by way of Texana and Goliad. "[This account] brings back to us now in a charming fashion the Texas of 1839" - Streeter. The map shows Mexico and the Southwest, with an inset of Texas. Dr. Page was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. HOWES P9, "aa." STREETER TEXAS 1604 (note). RAINES, p.167. RADER 2568 (1st ed). CLARK III:221. SABIN 93969. GRAFF 3159. [2],vi,[2],[11]-166pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Slight wear at hinges and extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown, institutional blindstamp on titlepage. Small, closed tear in right border of the map, not affecting the image. Internally quite clean. Very good.