Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(WEST.) John Russell Bartlett. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Folding map, 16 lithographic plates, 29 engraved plates, text illustrations. 2 volumes. xxii, 506, [6]; xvii, [3], 624 pages including 3 leaves of publisher's ads. 8vo, early 1/2 calf over marbled boards, rebacked with original backstrip laid down and new spine labels in period style; lacking half-titles, moderate foxing to frontispieces and offsetting to title pages, otherwise quite clean internally. New York, 1854

Additional Details

First edition of the Southwestern cornerstone, with the "extra" unlisted view of Tucson in Volume II facing page 292. "An essential book for the Southwest and an interesting one, too"--Graff 198. Cowan 1933, page 36; Howes B201; Jenkins, Best Texas Books 12; Sabin 3746; Wagner-Camp 234:1.