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.

LIEUT COL W. H. EMORY

Publication: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848, Washington

First Edition. Second Issue. Two Volumes. Full Leather and Half-Leather & Cloth. 614pp. 64 Plates. 3 Plans. 3 Maps. Thirtieth Congress--First Session. House Ex. Doc. No. 41. This second issue is the most complete in that it includes the important reports by Abert, Cooke, and Johnston. Zamarano Eighty 33: "Source material for the Southwest and Mexican border. A library of Western Americana is incomplete without it." Becker-Wagner-Camp 148:5: "As an explorer, observer, and reporter of the virtually unknown, newly-won territory of the Southwest, he performed an outstanding service for his country." Field 500: "This work contains some interesting particulars concerning the Pimo, Apache, Navajo, and Maricopa Indians, with several engravings of Indian antiquities, portraits of women and chiefs of these tribes, and of scenes in the country inhabited by them." Wheat Mapping The Transmississippi West III p.7: "The Journal of Emory is full of interest, and his map was epoch-making...the work of Emory was vastly important. It tied the country together on a route at it's extreme south, and was to become of great value when the boundary of the United States and Mexico was traced a few years later." According to Howes E145, few copies of this issue have the large Emory map. The exceptionally important large map is in very nice condition, with no splits and a slight amount of wear to only a few corners of folds. It's protected in a custom folding slipcase of red half-leather and cloth. Text block is bound in red full-leather with raised-bands and title, author, date in gilt on spine. Map volume in matching red leather and gilt on spine. An attractive copy of an important work.