(AMERICAN INDIANS) James Edwin; compiler Account of an Exped

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) James, Edwin; compiler. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. Folding map (two short tears), folding chart, 8 plates (3 of them hand-colored). 3 volumes. 8vo, later calf gilt, front covers loose or detached; intermittent foxing including plates, but mostly clean internally; bookplates on front pastedown. Half-titles on second and third volumes only as issued. London, 1823

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Second edition, and first in England. The definitive early account of Stephen Long's 1820 expedition, which explored a route along the Platte and Canadian Rivers through what is now Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. James was the botanist on the expedition, and compiled this account from the notes of Long and others. Much of the work is devoted to the American Indians encountered by the expedition--Pawnee, Sioux, Omaha, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and others. The work is also remembered for declaring the area just east of the Rockies as a "Great Desert," as seen on the folding map. Abbey Travel 650; Field 948; Howes J41 ("b"); Sabin 35683; Streeter sale III:1784; Wagner-Camp 25:2.