Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
Simpson, James Hervey (1813-1883)
Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Navajo Country.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1852.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with large folding map (repaired on verso with yellowed tape) and seventy-five lithographs as called for, omitting numbers 2, 21, and 39, many tinted or in color; twelve page publisher's catalog bound after the text; in unrestored publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, gilt-tooled spine, endcaps bumped, a few small holes in the spine, decased, corners worn, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Howes H498n; Plains & Rockies IV:218n.