MAPS. – C.W. HAYES and William KENNEDY. Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition, 8vo (224 x 136mm.) 1 double-paged colour map, 1 double-paged plan of the ‘Spindletop Oil Pool’ in Texas, photographic illustrations, original front wrapper bound-in. (Toning.) Later red cloth (lightly bumped). Note: the discovery of a huge quantity of ‘Spindletop oil’ in Beaumont, Texas, ushered in the age of oil as a fuel for mass consumption. – And a further two volumes (including F. Journet’s ‘L’ Australie’, [large folding map of Australia], 1885, 8vo, and John Walker’s ‘Elements of Geography, and of Natural and Civil History’, 1805, 8vo) (3).