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Puro Texana 2 by Copano Bay Press

Featured in our Puro Texana auction for High Holy Days 2022 are some gifts from our Founding Fathers. We have both of Lorenzo de Zavala's published works and the crown jewel of Texana by Mary Austin Holley with its original map in excellent condition. Early writings on Texas from all kinds of perspectives + the range and oil patch. It is our sincerest pleasure to present these rarities to you.

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Items in this auction are being sold by Copano Bay Press.
Contact name: Michelle Haas
Telephone: 361.776.1836
Email: reply@copanobay.email
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40 auction items

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Item Cat # Value Price # bids # bidders Highest bidder Auction end time
Item:
Early Views of the Texas Hill Country, 1852-1856
Cat #:
Value:
$100-$200
Price:
$101
# bids:
23
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder 8cc61
Auction end time:
8:02pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Wortham's Magnificent History of Texas, 1924
Cat #:
Value:
$500-$1200
Price:
$1,030
# bids:
35
# bidders:
8
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:03pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Kennedy's History of the Republic with Arrowsmith Map
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$300
Price:
$280
# bids:
19
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:04pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Lorenzo de Zavala's History of Mexico's Revolutions, 1845
Cat #:
Value:
$1200-$1500
Price:
$410
# bids:
7
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:05pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
William Bollaert's Republic of Texas
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$61
# bids:
14
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder 63e21
Auction end time:
8:06pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
West Texas Railroad History, First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$30-$60
Price:
$76
# bids:
8
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:08pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed, J. Evetts Haley - Jeff Milton, Good Man With A Gun
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$200
Price:
$276
# bids:
37
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:09pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed, Definitive History of Railroads in Texas
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$200
Price:
$301
# bids:
30
# bidders:
10
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:11pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Wooten's Monumental History of Texas, First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$500-$750
Price:
$1,000
# bids:
43
# bidders:
8
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:12pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Scarce History of Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway - Boll Weevil Line
Cat #:
Value:
$350-$500
Price:
$351
# bids:
9
# bidders:
4
Highest bidder:
Bidder 40f0f
Auction end time:
8:12pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
1829 Early Account of Mexico and Texas + maps
Cat #:
Value:
$1500-$2900
Price:
$430
# bids:
9
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:15pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Pease 1837 Account of Texas Revolution with early Republic Map
Cat #:
Value:
$2500-$5000
Price:
$1,530
# bids:
29
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:15pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Permian Basin Landman & WIldcatter, 1924-1960, Signed
Cat #:
Value:
$70-$150
Price:
$77
# bids:
6
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder 797c7
Auction end time:
8:16pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed, Limited Biography of Ernest O. Thompson
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$200
Price:
$21
# bids:
3
# bidders:
2
Highest bidder:
Bidder 4d7f1
Auction end time:
8:18pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Lorenzo de Zavala's Travels in America, 1834
Cat #:
Value:
$1500-$2500
Price:
$520
# bids:
24
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder bd531
Auction end time:
8:20pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
1833 Mary Austin Holley's Texas, complete with map
Cat #:
Value:
$12000-$25000
Price:
$7,010
# bids:
35
# bidders:
9
Highest bidder:
Bidder d834e
Auction end time:
8:20pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Early History of Rio Grande Valley and Brownsville, 1917
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$201
# bids:
16
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:21pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed, Limited History of Permian Basin & West Texas
Cat #:
Value:
$100-$200
Price:
$102
# bids:
45
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder c6146
Auction end time:
8:22pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Huge History of Matagorda County, 2 volumes
Cat #:
Value:
$200-$350
Price:
$321
# bids:
25
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:22pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy & Houston's Shamrock Hotel, First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$150
Price:
$162
# bids:
28
# bidders:
8
Highest bidder:
Bidder e99c4
Auction end time:
8:23pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Fredericksburg's Art & Artists, signed by G. Harvey and others
Cat #:
Value:
$200-$500
Price:
$80
# bids:
14
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder 9d458
Auction end time:
8:23pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Doctors in Texas, From San Jacinto to 1930
Cat #:
Value:
$60-$150
Price:
$103
# bids:
10
# bidders:
4
Highest bidder:
Bidder 90691
Auction end time:
8:24pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed First Edition of Harrigan's Aransas
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$65
# bids:
10
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder 3a108
Auction end time:
8:24pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
J. Evetts Haley & Erwin Smith - Life on the Texas Range
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$161
# bids:
18
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:25pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Ranch Life Since Barbed Wire, Sonnichsen, First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$201
# bids:
20
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:26pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Panhandle Ranching History - Hall County
Cat #:
Value:
$100-$200
Price:
$51
# bids:
3
# bidders:
2
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:27pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Rare History of Houston & Galveston, Ziegler
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$250
Price:
$125
# bids:
26
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder 3a108
Auction end time:
8:28pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Six Years With the Texas Rangers, Gillett
Cat #:
Value:
$40-$100
Price:
$141
# bids:
17
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:29pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
1865 Texas Stock Directory & Brand Book
Cat #:
Value:
$100-$250
Price:
$202
# bids:
19
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder d834e
Auction end time:
8:30pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed Boyce House - Texas Laughs
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$176
# bids:
33
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:31pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Signed, Ranching in Boerne Texas in the 1870s
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$51
# bids:
8
# bidders:
3
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:32pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Wharton's Copy of Reid's Texas Rangers
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$250
Price:
$503
# bids:
30
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:34pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Firsthand Ranching Tales, From the Panhandle to the Coast, First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$50-$100
Price:
$276
# bids:
38
# bidders:
7
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:34pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
King Ranch Centennial History, 1953
Cat #:
Value:
$60-$120
Price:
$172
# bids:
18
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder d834e
Auction end time:
8:35pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Sironia Texas, Scarce First Edition, 2vols
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$200
Price:
$202
# bids:
32
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder 3a108
Auction end time:
8:36pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Tom Lea's King Ranch - 2 volumes
Cat #:
Value:
$150-$300
Price:
$541
# bids:
40
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:37pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
King-Kenedy Train Excursion to Laredo - King Ranch limited edition
Cat #:
Value:
$100-$200
Price:
$461
# bids:
24
# bidders:
6
Highest bidder:
Bidder 40f0f
Auction end time:
8:38pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
History of Red River Valley, early Cisneros illustrations
Cat #:
Value:
$60-$150
Price:
$81
# bids:
10
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:39pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
S.O. Young's 1912 History of Houston
Cat #:
Value:
$60-$150
Price:
$151
# bids:
26
# bidders:
5
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:40pm 08 Mar 2022
Item:
Billy Dixon, Battle of Adobe Walls - First Edition
Cat #:
Value:
$400-$650
Price:
$678
# bids:
47
# bidders:
10
Highest bidder:
Bidder e71de
Auction end time:
8:48pm 08 Mar 2022