(TRAVEL) Pike Zebulon Exploratory Travels through the Wester

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(TRAVEL.) Pike, Zebulon. Exploratory Travels through the Western Territories of North America. 2 maps. xx, 436 pages. 4to, full calf, worn, front board detached, lacking backstrip with later spine label attached; lacking half-title, intermittent foxing. London, 1811

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First English edition, substantially reorganized from the 1810 Philadelphia first edition. The first official American exploration of the Southwest, including one of the first descriptions of Texas in English. "This edition has a much better arrangement, with corrections of grammar"--Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 163. Field 1218; Graff 3292; Howes P373 ("aa"); Sabin 62837; Streeter Texas 1047A; Wagner-Camp 9:2.