Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(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

Additional Details

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.