Oblong 12mo (85 x 129 mm). Illustrated lithograph trade card on heavy card stock. (Tiny chip to upper left corner, very minor soiling). Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan.

RARE LITHOGRAPHED TEXAS TRADE CARD, printed by the Gast firm in St. Louis. The small detailed scene shows surveyors at work depicting various surveyor's instruments. The Gast firm lithographed the General Land Office maps of Texas counties, and produced several notable images of Texas. Amory Reily Starr, who identifies himself as "successor to Jas.  H. Starr & Son," assumed control of the James H. Starr and Son land agency, which had belonged to his father and uncle, in 1873.