REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-44

8vo. 693 pp. Twenty-two plates, five maps, three folding, the largest in rear pocket. Howes F-370. Wagner-Camp 115:1. Wheat Gold Regions 3266. Wheat Transmississippi 497. Zamorano 80, 39. Cowan, p. 223. Graff 1437. Grolier Club One Hundred American Books 49. Mintz 165. Rittenhouse 229. Streeter sale 3131: "Though the map accompanying the report is unsigned, Lt. G.K. Warren in his Memoir, p. (45), says 'it was drawn by Charles Preuss, whose skill in sketching topography in the field and representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed.'" This, the Senate printing, is considered the best edition of this work, containing one of the most historically important maps of the Western exploration. Original brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Usual foxing, a few tears to large map in pocket.