City views and bird's eye views of selected cities provide examples of 19th century toned and hand colored lithography.

The Texas Architectural Survey--Sponsored By the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and the School of Architecture, the University of Texas. The homes of Texas present charming evidence of the diversity of national cultures from which Texans came. This book provides a visual summary of the state's dramatic history from the time Anglo-Americans first entered the region--already rich in its Spanish architectural heritage--until the close of the century....

The almost simultaneous European discovery of the New World and the rise of the art of printing has made maps among the most faithful records of the exploration and settlement of the Americas. Printed maps proved indispensable to the empire-building ofthe great European powers, and today these same maps offer an incomparable panorama of what was known about Texas and the Southwest between 1513 and 1900. The publication of this long out-of-print classic,...

This is a collection of photographs taken by Eliot Porter which "represent an eloquent call to respect and value nature, while taking careful note of humanity's varied relationship with it."