Report Of The Secretary Of War Communicating, In Compliance With A Resolution Of The Senate, The Report Of Lieutenant Colonel Graham On The Subject Of The Boundary Line Between The United States And Mexico

LT. COL JAMES D. GRAHAM

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1852, Washington

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, marbled front and rear endpapers, 250 pp., two folding maps. Senate Executive Document No. 121, 32d Congress, 1st Session, 1852. The folding maps: Mexican Boundary. Sketch A, 13 x 47 cm., and Mexican Boundary B, 23 x 39 cm. Extract From The Treaty Map Of 1847. Plus a "Barometric Profile Of The Route From San Antonio ... To The Copper Mines Of Santa Rita, In New Mexico, In 1851." Becker Wagner-Camp 212: "In addition to reporting his troubles with John R. Bartlett, Graham included information and reports on southern New Mexico and Lt. Armiel Whipple's reports on the survey of the Gila River." Meisel III, p. 100. Raines, p. 96: "Col G. was principal astronomer and head of the scientific corps under Commissioner Jno. R. Bartlet [sic] in Texas and Mexico." Wheat Mapping The Transmississippi West III, Pp. 227: "This document contains Graham's elaborate defense of his conduct while detailed to the Boundary Commission." See Martin and Martin "Maps Of Texas And The Southwest" for a long discussion concerning the boundary line and the map Mexican Boundary B, Extract From The Treaty Map Of Disturnell .... "The issue was defused in 1853 with the Gadsden Purchase, a treaty in which the United States obtained the disputed territory, as well as additional lands and Mexican concessions ..." A fine and attractive presentation.

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