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Published by Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 30th Congress - First Session, Ex. Doc. No 41,
Seller: Berry Hill Book Shop, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1848, Good Only/no dj, thick octavo, 614pp., brown cloth hardcover, intact paste-on backstrip title label with one small chip along bottom, both exterior hinges very frayed & cracking, binding tight & solid, tiny owner's sticker top corner of front endpaper, 63 plates including 2 fold-out maps, title page and several lithographs have unfortunate but faint perforated library stamps, overall a solid copy, Howes E-145.
Published by Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848
Seller: Turgid Tomes, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Wendell & Van Benthuysen, 1848. Hard cover, first edition. Ex-library copy in library binding. Pages are moisture-stained at the edges and a bit warped. Includes a large folding map after page 548 and another folding map at the beginning of the index. 614 pages.
Published by Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Washington, D.C., 1848
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Washington, 1848
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 614 pages; Executive Document No. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Original brown cloth with rebacked spine. Most of original spine laid down. Very well done, you have to look to see it. Paper spine label chipped. Contains the 2 folding lithographed maps: "Map of the Territory of New Mexico" and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel COOKE, from Sante Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7", 3 full-page lithographed plans (somewhat toned). 62 lithographed plates, scattered in-text illustrations (some offsetting). Light to moderate foxing throughout.
Published by Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, Washington, D. C., 1848
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Joint split with spine laid down, chipped at edges; rubbing to edges and bumped corners; front endpaper torn; owner signature second endpaper, two bookplates, one for Frederick Wm. Zimmerman, one for Alfred I. Exberg. Hinge starting lower 2 inches at title page, but cord binding holding firm. First folding map of New Mexico with tape repairs to back; degrees of foxing in general to text pages and plates from mild to moderate, occasionaly heavy, yet many pages and plates remain relatively clean. ; Original brown cloth, and paper spine label; 4 sketches; 26 plates; 10 of 12 botanical plates called for, also lacking 2 botanical plates called for in appendix. Abert's report with 23 of 24 plates, lacking Pueblo de Santa Ana; 2 folding maps. Conforms to Wagner-Camp 148: 5. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 614 pages.
Published by 30th Congress, Wendell & Van Benthuysen, Washington DC, 1848
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 5th issue. House Ex. Doc. No. 41. 30th Congress, 1st Session. AND James William Abert, REPORT OF LIEUT. J. W. ABERT, OF HIS EXAMINATION OF NEW MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1846-'47. Bound in recent cloth (ca 1950?), moderately soiled, with early or original label. 614pp. All 64 plates present + the 3 single page sketches & 3 folding maps (browning at folds, splitting at many folds, some chips) in the rear. This copy includes the huge folding map called for by Wagner-Camp-Becker only in the Senate edition, (but noted by Howes in some copies) "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas Rio del Norte and Rio Gila." Th e second map, "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke." appears to be complete, but has smaller dimensions than WCB describes. The large Emory map (76 x 165 cm) is in predictably fragile condition at the folds, with many of them split. However, to quote Carl Wheat (Trans-Mississippi, Vol. III, p.6), "The map of Lieutenant Emory (including the map of Abert and Peck and the map of Cooke) is a document of towering significance in the cartographic history of the West". "epoch making" (p. 7). A tight copy with new endpapers. Foxing throughout. Old waterstains to the upper margins, not affecting the images of the plates. A rarity of American military history & exploration. Graff 1249, Cowan p195, Howes E145, W-C 148:5, SFT 188. Feb. 9, 1848.
Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1858
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, 1858 (Smithsonian Institution), 78p., 76 steelengraved plates by i.a. PICART, Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. actually almost very good considering its age., Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, (Smithsonian Institution), n.d. (1858), 78p., 76 steelengr. plates by i.a. PICART, contemporay. half leather w. gilt spine, 4to. - Restorations to spine. binding tight, slight browning to page edges. All pages and plates very clean. Plate 14 of a total 76 plates is missing (photocopy of page laid in) Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. Ships from Hawaii with Priority mail, not slow media mail.
Published by Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, D.C., 1859
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Good +. Howes E-146, BTB- 57, Sabin. 1859 edition. This is Volume Two, Part One only. Ex-library copy with some of the usual markings. Hardcover; quarto; rebound in green cloth over original wraps; no jacket as issued; gilt spine titles; 78 pp of text; plus 75 b/w steel engraved plates + engraved frontispiece; bookplate inside front cover; call numbers on spine have been covered over fairly nicely; pp.69-72 are missing, pp.65-68 are repeated (may be binder's error); dampstaining throughout to bottom right corner somewhat effecting plates; else a good plus copy overall. Protected in an archival mylar cover. Extremely scarce. Scans available upon request.
Published by Wendell and Van Benthuysen., Washington, 1848
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Publication Date: 1848
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Tall 8vo. 614pp. plus 6 maps (3 folding - one of these very large and laid in), and 60 lithographic plates. Small section including 3 plates and 2 leaves detached. A very little sporadic browning to a few pages. Original black cloth with paper title label. Couple of nicks to front joint and corners a little bruised. Very good otherwise. Thirtieth Congress - First Session. Ex Doc. No. 41. Washington. This copy bears on the first blank a presentation inscription dated 29 May 1856 in Boston from Robert C. Winthrop to The Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. Winthrop, orator and statesman was a descendant of Governor John Winthrop (1588-1649) and served as the Massachusetts Historical Society President 1855-1885, as well as President of the Peabody Trust from 1867 until his death in 1894. 10,250 copies were printed, yet vey scarce.