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Title: Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior Author: Emory, William H. Place: Washington Publisher: Cornelius Wendell Date: 1857-1859 Description: 2 volumes (in 2 parts each). xvi, 258, viii, 174; [vi], 270, 78; [viii], 62, 32, [2], 35, 85, ii pp. Illustrated with: large folding map; 12 color lithographs of Indians or views; 33 plates with 66 engraved outline sketches; 1 folding profile; 1 folding chart; 1 map; 21 steel-engraved paleontological plates; 61 lithographed botanical plates; 75 steel-engraved cactaceae specimen plates & 1 view of cacti; 41 steel-engraved plates of reptiles; 40 (out of 41) steel-engraved plates of fish; 62 steel-engraved plates of mammals; 25 hand-colored steel-engraved ornithological plates; and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. (4to), one volume in cloth, two in suede. House of Representatives Issue. 34th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 135. Report on government explorations in the Southwest, noteworthy for the striking illustrations as well as the text, and with an important map. Wagner-Camp notes that "Emory's writing style and system of organization lacks the quality of John C. Fremont, but the scientific content of the Report is indeed comparable to Fremont's earlier Narrative, according to William H. Goetzmann. Although Emory had been a key member of the Commission ever since its beginning, his narrative of his own adventures is sketchy and inadequate, and reflects in it some of his animosity toward John Bartlett Emory's own contribution to the Report is cartographic; as the Commission's chief astronomer, he had made most of the several thousand observations which were incorporated into the maps...." Lot Amendments Condition: Covers mostly detached, heavily worn, soiled in places; foxed, plates are mostly foxed at margins, a few ornithology plates have a very short closed tear on fore edge; very good. Item number: 210069