(WESTERN EXPLORATION) William H Emory Notes of a Military Re

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(WESTERN EXPLORATION.) William H. Emory. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri to San Diego, in California. 64 lithographed or engraved plates, 3 large folding lithographed maps, 13, 614 pages. 8vo, 9x5½ inches, contemporary calf with gilt morocco spine labels, minor wear; scattered foxing, largest map with repairable tear at mount point. 30th Congress, 1st Session, House Executive Document 41. Washington, 1848

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House issue, most desirable and possibly first issue with the scarce large folding map bound in (usually lacking), and all appendices. A printed index to the full nine-volume run of executive documents (not usually found) is bound in. Cowan 1933, page 195; Field 500; Graff 1249; Howes E145 (calls this the first edition); Wagner-Camp 148:5 (calls the Senate edition first); Zamorano Eighty 33 ("a library of Western Americana is incomplete without it").