Folio (350 x 217 mm). 3pp., on a bifolium (p.4 blank). (Some very minor toning to margins, minor offsetting.) 

The Adeslverein, also known as the Mainzer verein, the Texas-Verein, and the German Emigration Company, was officially named the Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. In April 1842, twenty-one German noblemen at Biebrich on the Rhine, near Mainz, provisionally organized to establish a new Germany on Texas soil by means of an organized mass emigration. The present promotional pamphlet was printed to encourage German emigration to Texas. Between October 1845 and April 1846, a total of 5,257 German emigrants were brought to Texas, and in 1847, five settlements were established on the Fisher-Miller grant on the banks of the Llano River: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg.  RARE.