Notes of a Military Reconnoissance
Item #40335
EMORY, W[illiam] H[emsley]. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. N.Y., 1848. 43 plates and maps including a large folding map and 14 plates of botanical specimens. 206pp. Orig. cloth. Six-inch tear at interior edge of large map. Two plates detached. Some foxing. Overall very good. Howes E-145. Wagner-Camp 148:3. Cowan, p. 195. Field 500. Hill, p. 299. Sabin 22536. Zamorano 80, 33. Saunders 2883. White Transmississippi 544. Taxonomic Literature 1669. The New York issue of this important government report. One of the most important government reports on overland travel, with accounts of the march of the Army of the West, the Mexican War in New Mexico and California, and some of the first American views of the far Southwest. "A library of Western American is incomplete without it" - Zamorano 80. "His map...was the first accurate depiction of that vast area, and it is still regarded as one of the landmarks of American cartography." - Wagner-Camp.
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