HUGHES, John T.

Doniphan's Expedition

Item #71918

HUGHES, John T. Doniphan's Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearny's Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan's Campaign against the Navajos; His Unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fe. With a Sketch of the Life of Col. Doniphan. Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1848. 2nd ed., 2nd issue (best). 407pp. Portrait frontises., illus., plan, folding map. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth, decorated in blind. Light wear to spine ends and corners, light scattered foxing, else very good. HOWES H-769, "aa." Wagner-Camp 134:3. Graff 2005. Rader 1970. Wheat Transmississippi 546. Rittenhouse 311. Sabin 33596. The third and what Howes calls the "best ed[ition]" of one of the classic, primary works on the campaign of the first Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua. "The narrative is a valuable adjunct to the literature of overland travel, Doniphan's march being one of the most famous in history and the author an actual participant. The chapters on the march to California of Kearny's Army of the West, the battles en route and there, and of affairs on the West Coast during the Revolution, contain one of the earliest accounts of these world-shaking events to appear in print"-Eberstadt. The first edition (which is extremely rare) appeared in 1847, and by 1851 more than 14,000 copies had been sold. One map illustrates Santa Fe, the other the Battle of Brazito at El Paso. The folding map is J.A. & U.P. James' "A New Map of Mexico, California & Oregon. 1848."

Price: $450.00