Title: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers Author: Emory, Lieut. Col. W[illiam] H. Place: Washington Publisher: Wendell & Van Benthuysen Date: 1848 Description: 614 pp. Illustrated with 58 (of 64) lithographed or engraved plates, 3 battle-plans; 2 folding maps; plus some figure drawings within the text. (8vo), rebound in black cloth, new endpapers. The large House of Representatives issue. A superb study, by topographical engineer and scientist Emory, of the lands newly wrested from the Mexican government. Regarding the illustrations, Howes notes, "in the House edition these are usually all done by C.B. Graham, though in some copies the 24 plates in Albert's report were executed, in a superior manner, anonymously," as is the case in this copy. As Wagner-Camp notes, "his report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America... The report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archaeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." The larger House of Representatives issues of the report, of which this is the first (30th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. 41), to contain the reports of Lieutenant Abert, Colonel Cooke, and Captain Johnson as well as that of Emory. The two maps bound in are "Map of the Territory of New Mexico" and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke." The very large folding [Emory] map was not originally included with this House issue. Cowan p.195; (Graff 1249); Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Wheat Transmississippi 505 & 532; Zamorano Eighty 33. Lot Amendments Condition: With the rubberstamp from Archivum Provincial Old Mission, Santa Barbara, Calif. on title page and a few other leaves within; foxed; engraved plates are clean and bright with only light foxing; larger map with stubtear repaired, plus rubberstamp on verso; very good. Item number: 223355
Title: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers Author: Emory, Lieut. Col. W[illiam] H. Place: Washington Publisher: Wendell & Van Benthuysen Date: 1848 Description: 614 pp. Illustrated with 58 (of 64) lithographed or engraved plates, 3 battle-plans; 2 folding maps; plus some figure drawings within the text. (8vo), rebound in black cloth, new endpapers. The large House of Representatives issue. A superb study, by topographical engineer and scientist Emory, of the lands newly wrested from the Mexican government. Regarding the illustrations, Howes notes, "in the House edition these are usually all done by C.B. Graham, though in some copies the 24 plates in Albert's report were executed, in a superior manner, anonymously," as is the case in this copy. As Wagner-Camp notes, "his report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America... The report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archaeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." The larger House of Representatives issues of the report, of which this is the first (30th Congress, 1st Session, Doc. 41), to contain the reports of Lieutenant Abert, Colonel Cooke, and Captain Johnson as well as that of Emory. The two maps bound in are "Map of the Territory of New Mexico" and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke." The very large folding [Emory] map was not originally included with this House issue. Cowan p.195; (Graff 1249); Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Wheat Transmississippi 505 & 532; Zamorano Eighty 33. Lot Amendments Condition: With the rubberstamp from Archivum Provincial Old Mission, Santa Barbara, Calif. on title page and a few other leaves within; foxed; engraved plates are clean and bright with only light foxing; larger map with stubtear repaired, plus rubberstamp on verso; very good. Item number: 223355
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