Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MARCH OF THE MORMON BATTALION (MORMONS.) Cooke, Philip St. George. Report from the Secretary of War, Communicating . . . a Copy of the Official Journal of Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, from Santa Fé to San Diego. 8vo, contemporary calf; some foxing. Washington, 1849

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"The first extended publication of the journal of the officer commanding the Mormon Battalion as it marched from New Mexico to California"--Graff 870. Howes C739, Wagner-Camp 165. Issued as Document 2 of Senate Documents, 5 March 1849 Special Session, Documents 1-4. The volume also includes testimony on behalf of Cherokee claims, and a long report on steamship accidents.