PIKE ZEBULON MONTGOMERY An Account of Expeditions to the Sou

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PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi. 6 maps, frontispiece portrait, 3 folding tables. 8vo, modern buckram; maps with some repairs at folds, silked and complete; lacking the blank leaf Mm4, leaf 13:3 in appendix misbound after 14:1; inked library stamps on title and final pages (both offsetting to facing plates) and rear pastedown. Philadelphia, 1810

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first edition, and only edition with all 3 appendices. Pike's military survey expedition deep into Spanish territory resulted in the first extended description of Texas in English. A large swath of Texas is marked on one of his maps as simply "Immense herds of wild horses." "Pike's narrative marks the beginning of serious American interest in Texas"--Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 163. It was also a milestone in the exploration of what is now Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. "First government exploration of the Southwest"--Howes P373 ("b"). Graff 3290; Sabin 62836; Streeter sale V:3125; Streeter Texas 1047; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Wheat, Transmississippi West 297-299 and pages II:16-27 ("the first maps of this region to display knowledge derived from actual exploration").