Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers

Washington, D.C.: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers. Good. 1848. First Edition. Full-Leather. Brown full-leather with embossed gilt decoration and border. Rubbed and bumped edges and corners, with some rubbing on boards. Spine gilt sunned but readable. Top edge gilt has wear and a dampstain reaching a few millimeters into top margins and corners at rear. Yellow endpapers have the bookplate of W. J. Holliday, author of a book on Western Americana. Light soil on endpapers and foxing throughout text, including plates. Corner pieces missing from last two text pages. Fully collated with 40 plates and all four maps present. Senate edition, 30th Congress, 1st Session, SED No. 7. Maps include: Sketch of the Actions Fought at San Pasqual in Upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th. 1846; Sketch of the Passage of the Rio San Gabriel Upper California by the Americans, Discomfiting the Opposing Mexican Forces January 8th. 1847; Sketch of the Battle of Los Angeles Upper California Fought between the Americans and Mexicans Jany. 9th. 1847; and Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas, Rio del Norte and Rio Gila, by W. H. Emory, Lieut. Top. Engrs. Assisted from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, by Lieuts. J. W. Abert and W. G. Peck. And from Santa Fe to San Diego on the Pacific, by Lieut W. H. Warner and Mr. Norman Bestor, Made in 1846-7, with the Advance Guard of the Army of the West, Under Command of Brig. Gen. Stephn. W. Kearny. Constructed under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert. Ch. Corps Top. Engrs. 1847. This last map is the large folding one, in good condition in a rear pocket. This report and the map became an important source for westward bound explorers, with descriptions of the country and the Pima, Apache, Maricopa, and Navajo peoples. Howes E 145, Graff 1249, Wagner-Camp 148: 1. ; Book; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 416 pp .