A copy of*an 1853 map of*Texas by Jacob de Cordova found in a $10 box of ragtime sheet music sold at auction last weekend for $10,000.*The map, once owned by surveyor James M. Manning, who died in 1872, was bought, along with a related letter, by Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, whose library houses the Manning papers. [via]
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