Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 370

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WEST.) Emory, William H. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri to San Diego, in California. 5 maps, 64 lithographed plates. 614 pages. Thick 8vo, binder's cloth with original spine label, moderate wear, restitched internally, leaf 11:1 detached, 8-inch repaired tear to one map; early gift inscription and inked stamp on flyleaf. House Document, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Exec. Doc. 41. (MRS) Washington, 1848
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Early House issue without the largest folding map, and with all plates lithographed by Graham. Field 500; Graff 1249; Howes E145 (calls this the first edition); Wagner-Camp 148:5 (calls the Senate edition first).