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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 503 United States Army . Corps of Topographical Engineers, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, William Hemsley Emory, James William Abert, Philip St. George Cooke , Abraham Robinson Johnston.
Published by U.S. Government Printing Office, Depart of War, 1848
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st edition, Senate issue. Housed in a custom made morocco leather backed slipcase. Bound by Jacques Desmonts, James Macdonald, Norwalk Conn. 24.5 cm. Bound in original printed wrappers. Wraps are worn, and nearly detached. Loss to bottom corner of front and rear wrap. Contemporary signature on front wraps. 132 pages: 24 plates, folded map; 24 cm. Large folding lithographic "Map of the Territory of New Mexico." Pages are clean and unmarked. Includes plates of Santa Fe, Fort Marcy, San Felipe, and Native Americans. Howes A-11; Sabin 57; Wagner-Camp 143; Streeter I.168; Graff 5, Rittenhouse 2. One of the earliest U.S. government sponsored explorations of the Southwest. James Abert left Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas along the Santa Fe trail in order to map the newly won territory. He made his way via Bent's Fort and returned to back His map was the most detailed up to that point. Abert had served in Gen. Stephen W. Kearny's Army of the West in the Mexican American War and had been part of Fremont's earlier California expedition. 30th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Ex. doc., no. 23.