Cooke P St George (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is an attractive red cloth textured oversized California History book in Very Good condition. c1952, Limited to six hundred copies. The cover is clean and bright with only a little cover wear. The edges are nice with a little spine end and corner point wear. The pages are tight, bright and unmarked, no names. There is a hint of some foxing to the top page ends. 165 pages + fold out map. #17311-1223.

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Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition thus. Folding map. Important reference work. Fine copy 308 pps.

Hardcover, red cloth. Limited edition, 600 copies. Light wear to extremities, otherwise very good, no dust jacket. Tipped-in folding map. 8vo. 161 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Facsimile. 8vo; 307 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This book is largely an account of the Mormon Battalion's march from Santa Fe, New Mexico to San Diego, CA, in the mid-1800s. Phillip St. George Cooke was a junior officer in the Army at this time. Illustrations, notes, and a fold out map are a part of the book. Light wear to the tips of the spine and the corners. Overall a very good + copy. Limited to 600 copies. 165 pages and a fold out map. Stated "First California Eddition." Howes: C738. Graff: 869. Cowan: pg 142. Not Signed.

Hardcover. First edition thus. Large folding map. One of 600 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 165 pps.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First California Edition. This work is an account of the march of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe, New Mexico to San Diego, California, in the mid-eighteen hundreds. The author, Philip St. George Cooke, was a junior officer in the Army at the time. Illustrations, notes, and a fold-out map are included. This copy is one of a Limited Edition of six hundred copies. This HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First California Edition. Very Good, SIGNED, one of 600 copies, 8vo, 10" x 7." Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Covers have slight wear to edges and tips and slight fading to lettering, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Pages have occasional foxing and light to moderate age toning, else pristine and intact. SIGNED by Joseph A. Sullivan in blue pen on front free endpaper: "To [--?], with affection, 5/21/52, Joe." Illustrations and one black-and-white folding map in back included. Illustrations are mostly black-and-white with faint printed decorative coloring. x, [1]-165, including illustrations, + map. Autobiographical account by Philip St. George Cooke (1809-1895), a United States Army cavalry officer and Union General who served during the Civil War. Cooke writes about his experiences and historical events that took place in New Mexico and California during the Mexican-American War. During the war, Cooke led the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to California. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Back colophon: "Six hundred copies of this book have been printed at the Times-Star Press, Alameda, California by Ben Kennedy and William R. Morrison; Bound by Commercial Book Bindery; First California Edition." Also listed as "California Relations XXXIII" on front copyright page. Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping. Signed.

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Color plates, folding map. 4to, maroon cloth, bottom of spine and edge of corners rubbed, back corner bumped, small area of light soiling to top of back cover. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952. One of 600 copies. Author was a Lt. Colonel in the Mormon Battalion. He writes of his service during the Mexican War.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Second Edition. Octavo, 432pp. A fair copy in contemporary brown cloth. Front board and spine partly loose, but holding by some stitching. Appears to lack a front free endpaper. Large, but faint stain to first few leaves. Internally clean. A reading copy of this scarce pre-Civil War account of American military life (Howes C740 (aa)). Suitable for rebinding.

Condition: Very Good. Southwest Historical Series Volume VII: Exploring Southwest Trails 1846-1854, Philip St. George Cooke, William Henry Chase Whiting, Francois Xavier Aubry, Ralph P. Bieber, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, CA, 1938, 9.5 x 6.5 inches, 383 pp. Mylar wrapped red boards with gilt stamped lettering to spine; gilt top edge; deckled fore- and bottom edge of text block. Bottom corners, spine lightly rubbed and bumped; bookplate to front pastedown, and previous owner name in ink to first free endpaper and rear pastedown. Collated; all plates present; map entitled "Trails Explored by Philip St. G. Cooke, William H. C. Whiting, Francois X. Aubry 1846-1854" tipped in to pg. 387. Good condition. Ralph P. Bieber (1894-1981) was editor of The Southwest Historical Series, a 12-volume series of historical documents depicting social and economic conditions in the Southwest during the nineteenth century. First edition Volume VII, containing journals and notes of three explorers who traveled the Southwest looking for new trails during the decade preceding the Civil War; Cooke and Whiting were commissioned officers of the United States Army, while Aubry was a civilian. Their journals describe "with a wealth of detail the country traversed, the Indians encountered, and the advantages and disadvantages of the routes followed.".

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, Thus. 614 pages. Ex. Doc. No. 41 complied by W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War and incorporating portions of Emory's "Notes of a Military Reconnoissance." (pp 5-416); Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert, Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-'47" (pp 417-548); "Report of Lieut. Col. P. St. George Cooke of his March From Santa Fe, New Mexico to San Diego, Upper California" (pp 549-614). Although the title page calls for three large maps and over one-hundred engravings, there are 67 plates present, of which three are maps. There are no folding maps present in this volume. 43 of the plates are bound within the Emery report, and 24 are in the Abert report. Ex-Library with older library stickers on spine, and minimal internal markings. Paper spine label is worn, though lettering remains good. Hinges are broke, though volume appears previously reglued beneath spine covers and entire volume remains solid and tight. Small book plates, inked and penciled names on front end leaves. Blind stamp on title page. Foxing throughout, sometimes quite heavy. Most plate are affected at least a little by foxing, and some significantly so. Good working copy of this somewhat scarce configuration of these reports.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. House Exec. Doc. No. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Howes E 145 (1st issue). Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lacks both flyleaves and title page, opens directly onto Secretary of War W. L. Marcy's letter dated 9 Feb. 1848 (p. 3), thus 3-614 pp., collated and complete except as noted with (64) lithographic plates including (26) in Emory's report, (14) botanical illustrations accompanying Engelmann's report, and (24) in Abert's report, plus (3) battle plan maps also in Emory between pp. 108-120. House edition (i.e. first issue), far more scarce than the (second issue) Senate edition (which was only 416 pp.), with possibly the first known rendering of Santa Fe on the plate opposite p. 419. Lacking the (2) folding maps and the large folding map which may not yet have been available upon issue (see Howes E 145 note). Considerable wear, but mostly intact. Cloth is somewhat soiled and spotted, with exposure at corners, chipped at tail of spine with some separation along joints and approx. 1" of minor loss along lower front joint, small vintage paper label mounted on upper spine (though not otherwise marked as an institutional copy). Signed on front pastedown and along top edge of p. 3 by former owner H. W. Clapham, a page in the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1848-49. Front hinge shows some evidence of amateur repair, but the binding is still intact, all leaves and plates present and firmly anchored excepting pp. 71-74 (which, along with 3 adjacent plates, are partially detached but fully intact). Text block edges somewhat dulled by age, interior with light scattered foxing, engraved plates mostly clean also with light foxing. Scarce edition. CONTENTS: 1) 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 / 2) Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico, in the Years 1846-47 / 3) Report of Lieut. Col. P. St. George Cooke of his March from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to San Diego, Upper California / 4) Journal of Captain A. R. Johnston, First Dragoons. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. x, [4], 165, [5] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. This edition is based on the 1878 First Edition, published by Putnam. Notes. Chapters on New Mexico, The Insurrection in New Mexico, The Infantry March to the Pacific, California, and Final Conquest of California. There is a fold-out sketch map at the end of the book (measuring 18 inches by 9-1/2 inches), showing part of the march and wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846--1847. This is volume XXXIII of the publisher's California Relations series. Later edition cited as Howes C728, Flake 2498. Philip St. George Cooke (June 13, 1809 - March 20, 1895) was a career United States Army cavalry officer who served as a Union General in the American Civil War. He is noted for his authorship of an Army cavalry manual, and is sometimes called the "Father of the U.S. Cavalry." His service in the Civil War was significant. During the Mexican-American War he led the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to California, establishing what became known as Cooke's Wagon Road, later to become the southern route to California during the California Gold Rush. He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel for his service in California. In command of 2nd U.S. Dragoons, he defeated the Apache in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico in 1854, was in the 1855 Battle of Ash Hollow against the Sioux, and was sent to keep the peace in Bleeding Kansas in 1856-1857. Cooke took part in the Utah expedition of 1857-58, and he was promoted to colonel and assigned command of the 2nd U.S. Dragoons. This is a first-hand narrative by the leader of the Mormon Battalion. George Cooke took command at Santa Fe with orders from General Kearney to open a wagon route to the Pacific by the Gila River Route. This involved a march of 1100 miles through unknown wilderness without road or trail. The Mormon Battalion, the only religion-based unit in United States military history, served from July 1846 - July 1847 during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559. Latter-day Saint men, led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service, the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 2,100 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California. This remains one of the longest single military marches in U.S. history. Arriving in Santa Fe in October, General Kearny had dispatched Captain (brevet promotion to Lieutenant Colonel) Philip St. George Cooke, West Point class of 1827, to assume command of the battalion. His assignment was to march them to California and to build a wagon road along the way. In Santa Fe 91 sick men and all but a few of the women and children were sent to Pueblo, in present-day Colorado. Three separate detachments left the battalion and went to Pueblo to winter. For the next four months, Cooke led the battalion across some of the most arduous terrain in North America. Most of the Mormon soldiers soon learned to respect and follow him. The group acquired another guide in New Mexico - adventurer and mountain man Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, who as an infant had traveled with his mother Sacagawea across the continent with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Mormon Battalion arrived in San Diego on January 29, 1847 after a march of some 1,900 miles from Iowa. For the next five months until their discharge on July 16, 1847 in Los Angeles, the battalion trained and also performed occupation duties in several locations in southern California. The most significant service the battalion provided in California was as a reliable unit under Cooke to reinforce General Kearny's one company of army troops. The construction of Fort Moore in Los Angeles was one measure Cooke employed to protect military control under Kearny. Some 22 Mormon men died from disease or other natural causes during their service. About 80 of the men reenlisted for another six months of service. After being mustered out, Jesse D. Hunter, captain of Company B, was appointed Indian Agent for southern California by the military governor, Colonel Richard Mason. Hunter was California's third Indian agent, the first two being Johann Sutter and Mariano Vallejo, both appointed by Mason's predecessor, Stephen Kearny. Hunter's mission was to protect ranchos and missions from depredations, and to generally control the Indian labor force, to the point of requiring Indians to carry passports. Fifteen men were selected to escort John C. Fremont back east to his court-martial. A few discharged veterans worked in the Sacramento area for James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill. Henry Bigler recorded in his diary the actual date when gold was discovered, January 24, 1848. This gold find started the California Gold Rush the next year. $17,000 in gold was contributed to the economy of the Latter-day Saints' new home by members of the Mormon Battalion returning from California. The battalion's march and service supported the eventual cession of much of the American Southwest from Mexico to the United States, especially the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 of southern Arizona and New Mexico. The march also opened a southern wagon route to California. Veterans of the battalion played significant roles in America's westward expansion in California, Utah, Arizona and other parts of the West. The Mormon Battalion arrived in San Diego on January 29, 1847. For the next five months until their discharge on July 16, 1847 in Los Angeles, the battalion trained and did garrison duties in several locations in southern California. Discharged members of the Mormon Battalion were helping to build a sawmill for John Sutter when gold was discovered there in January 1848, starting the California Gold Rush. First California Edition, [stated] limited to 600 copies [stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second issue (with Cooke's rank of Colonel on the title page), pp xii, 432, in publishers pebbled brown cloth. Titles on spine faded, otherwise a very nice copy -- clean and sound, with minimal wear. Ownership signature of Robert O. Macferron, dated December 25, 1865, on front free endpaper. Wagner-Camp 288:2: "Cooke's career in the west began in 1829, with his tour as a lieutenant in the military escort commanded by Major Bennett Riley to guard the Santa Fe traders from depredations. In 1831, he was stationed at Fort Atkinson on the Missouri. In 1845, he set out from Fort Leavenworth to escort emigrants bound for Oregon and he returned by way of Bent's Fort in the latter part of August, when the book ends.Cooke wrote ably about his own adventures, and stories that he heard from others as well." Howes C-740; Graff 871; Field 359.

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. House of Representatives Edition which proceeds the Senate edition. Title page mistakenly lists Emory as "Lieut. Col.". Original dark brown cloth with paper label title "New Mexico, and California, by Emory, Abert, Cooke, and Johnston". Contains some scuffs and nicks. Right spine edge is loose. Pages are age-toned and stiff with a few foxed. Includes wonderful pen and ink drawings in fine condition. Two fold out maps and three maps of battles in California with the Mexicans. Large fold-out map with 5" tear from inner margin affecting the map, "The Territory of New Mexico, 1846-47"; 67 plates. Page 454 misprinted as 754. 614pp. Overall GOOD minus condition. Extreemely scarce first edition. Damp staining to bottom corner throughout. Previous owner's notes on first page from 1929. Includes the reports of J.W. Abert and Philip St. George Cooke. Together they summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. The first folding map is Philip St. George Cooke's "Sketch of Part of the march & Wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7." This shows the route of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to the Gila River. The other, "Map of the Territory of New Mexico," was compiled by Lieutenants Abert and Peck after the conquest of New Mexico. Both are important contributions to western cartography. Abert's report includes material on the Indians of New Mexico and their languages. The Abert report also includes all of his views of New Mexico, the best group of early New Mexico views published. Wagner-Camp is in error in its collation of this edition, mistakenly calling for only forty plates, plus those of the Abert report. William Hemsley Emory (September 7, 1811 -- December 1, 1887) was an United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas. Emory was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, on his family's "Poplar Grove" estate. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated in 1831. Assigned as a second lieutenant, he served in the Corps of Engineers until he resigned from the service in 1836 to pursue civil engineering, but he returned to the service in 1838.During that same year, he married a great-grandaughter of Benjamin Franklin, Matilda Wilkins Bache of Philadelphia. The couple would have three children. During his second stint in the army, he was successively promoted from lieutenant to captain and finally to major. He specialized in mapping the United States border, including the Texas-Mexico border, the United States-Canadian border(1844 1866) and the Gadsen Purchase (1854 -- 1857). In 1844, Emory served in an expedition that produced a new map of Texan claims westward to the Rio Grande River. He came to public attention as the author of the Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, California, published by the Thirtieth United States Congress in 1848. This report described terrain and rivers, cities and forts and made observations about Indians, Mexicans, primarily in New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory and Southern California. It was and is considered one of the important chronicles and descriptions of the historic Southwest, particularly noted for its maps. Emory was a reliable and conscientous cartographer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.