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Verlag: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, Washington, 1848
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Couverture rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. Edition originale. Washington, Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Octavo. xvi, 416 pages. Contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt with author and title, red edges, stamp on title. Hinge cracked, small loose and label on spine. Large folding map detached and showing browning along… the folds. First edition, Senate issue. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Executive No. 7. Illustrated with 43 plates, including three battle plans of the Mexican-American War (among them the Battle of Pueblo de Los Angeles), early views of California settlements (including San Diego), ethnographic portraits, and botanical plates, and accompanied by the large folding engraved map (33 × 75 inches, environ 84x190cm) The report documenting the military reconnaissance conducted in 1846-1847 during the Mexican-American War by Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Emory of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. The text is divided into two distinct parts : a narrative of the journey itself, combining geographical, logistical, and military observations, followed by extensive appendices presenting the scientific results of the expedition, including meteorological and astronomical observations, geological notes, and natural history data. A primary source for the history of the American Southwest. The plates provide early visual documentation of California, Native American populations, scientific observations, and contemporary military operations. The large folding engraved map, entitled Military Reconnoissance of Arkansas, Rio del Norte, and Rio Gila (dated 1847), is the cartographic centerpiece of the work. Compiled from original field observations, it provides the first comprehensive official mapping of the regions traversed by the expedition, integrating military routes, topography, settlements, barometric profiles, and tables of distances and elevations. The present example corresponds to the second and finalized state. Demi veau époque, dos lisse avec auteur et titre, tranches rouges, cachet au titre, charnière fendues, carte détachée et présentant des brunissures aux plis. Rapport officiel du Sénat sur la reconnaissance de 1846-1847, associant le récit de l'expédition et des annexes scientifiques. Illustré de planches et accompagné de la grande carte dépliante gravée, second état, document cartographique majeur de la guerre américano-mexicaine. Ch.3E.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Second Senate Issue. 416pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with a paper title label on the spine. Lacking the folding map. Ex-Historical Society copy, with a label on the front pastedown, and a couple of discreet stamps on the title page. Occasional cracks to the text block, but still very s…turdy. With 43 plates, including 3 sketch maps. Howes E145. Wagner-Camp 148:2. Flake 3164. Emory's classic report describing terrain and rivers, cities and forts, pueblos and prehistoric ruins, plant and animal life, and Indians and Mexicans, primarily in New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California, with some mention of the Mormon Battalion.
Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. January 11th, 1845.
NICOLLET, Joseph N. (1786-1843, also called Jean N.) - EMORY, William Hemsley (1811-1887).
Verlag: Washington, D.C.: Blair and Rives, 1845., 1845
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 6/8 inches). Fine large engraved folding map of the Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi by Emory after Nicollet (title-page top outer corner renewed). Modern half red calf gilt. "THE EARLIEST ACCURATE MAP OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS" (Ehrenber…g) First edition, House Issue. Nicollet, a French-born scientist and would-be astronomer, arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and soon became intimate with the wealthy Chouteau family, who were preeminent in controlling the fur trade of the Mississippi Valley, with operations extending northward into the Illinois country. They persuaded him to join them in expeditions they were sending into the St. Louis region. "Nicollet embarked on the first of these explorations in 1836, searching for the source of the Mississippi River. In this quest he came into contact with the Chippewa Indians and reported his findings on their language, customs, religious practices, relations with other tribes, and attitudes toward American settlers to U.S. Army officers stationed at Fort Snelling, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, the site of present-day Minneapolis. Nicollet impressed his new American friends in the U.S. Army. As a result of their recommendations Secretary of War Joel Poinsett invited him to Washington, D.C., and gave him various assignments. One of these in 1838 was a commission to conduct a survey of the upper Missouri country, accompanied by Lieutenant John C. Frémont. In the following year he continued the survey by steamboat and also explored the sources of the Red River and the North Dakota country. When he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1840, he prepared some of the first accurate maps of the region northwest of the Mississippi River. In these projects he worked closely with the eminent Swiss émigré Ferdinand Hassler, chief of the U.S. Coast Survey.The significance of Nicollet's life in the United States was as an explorer and mapmaker. A scientist of note, he was one of the illustrious circle of talented, adventurous, and highly skilled men who gathered around Hassler. That group developed the first accurate scientific data about the still-unknown regions of the Mississippi Valley. In his brief career as a pioneer explorer he contributed much to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and to more accurate knowledge of the Native Americans in that area" (Gerald D. Nash for ADNB). Nicollet's celebrated "Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River", reduced by Emory and first published separately in 1842, was "based on some 90,000 instrument readings and 326 distinctly determined astronomical points. With its overall regional concept of a 'hydrographic basin,' Nicollet's map and the accompanying report were years ahead of their time. Had he lived one more decade, Nicollet would undoubtedly have become the official government cartographer of the whole trans-Mississippi West" (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, 1993, p. 313). Buck 339. Graff 3022. Howes N152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg (Plate 165), pp. 265-68; Sabin 55257; Streeter III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Verlag: Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Executive Document No. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session., 1848., 1848
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (9 x 5 ¾ inches). (Light occasional spotting). Two fine folding lithographed maps: "Map of the Territory of New Mexico" (short tear near mount, some new folds) and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel COOKE, from Sante Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7", 3 full-page lithographed ma…ps (somewhat toned). 62 lithographed plates, scattered in-text illustrations (some offsetting). Original brown cloth, printed paper label on the spine (a few stains). First edition, House of Representatives issue, later printing: "February 9, 1848 - Ordered to be printed. February 17, 1848 - Ordered, That 10,000 extra copies of each of the Reports of Lieutenant Emory, Captain Cooke, and Lieutenant Abert, be printed for the use of the House; and that of said number, 250 copies be furnished for the use of Lieutenant Emory, Captain Cooke, and Lieutenant Abert, respectively." As usual for this issue, the largest folding map, "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas, Rio del Norte and Rio Gila" is not present. Emory was an accomplished topographical engineer and scientist, and this is a landmark study of the lands which had just been taken from the Mexican government. A southwest book of primary importance. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America. The report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline - Anthropology - concerned with primitive man" (Wagner-Camp 148:2; Cowan, p. 195; Graff 1249; Howes E145; Wheat Transmississippi 544; Zamorano Eighty 33).
Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. January 11th, 1845.
NICOLLET, Joseph N. (1786-1843, also called Jean N.) - EMORY, William Hemsley (1811-1887).
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 4/8 inches). Fine large engraved folding map, on two sheets joined, of the Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi by Emory after Nicollet. Modern blue cloth gilt. "THE EARLIEST ACCURATE MAP OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS" (Ehrenberg) First edition, House Issue, but wit…h the larger map usually found in the Senate issue. Nicollet, a French-born scientist and would-be astronomer, arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and soon became intimate with the wealthy Chouteau family, who were preeminent in controlling the fur trade of the Mississippi Valley, with operations extending northward into the Illinois country. They persuaded him to join them in expeditions they were sending into the St. Louis region. "Nicollet embarked on the first of these explorations in 1836, searching for the source of the Mississippi River. In this quest he came into contact with the Chippewa Indians and reported his findings on their language, customs, religious practices, relations with other tribes, and attitudes toward American settlers to U.S. Army officers stationed at Fort Snelling, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, the site of present-day Minneapolis. Nicollet impressed his new American friends in the U.S. Army. As a result of their recommendations Secretary of War Joel Poinsett invited him to Washington, D.C., and gave him various assignments. One of these in 1838 was a commission to conduct a survey of the upper Missouri country, accompanied by Lieutenant John C. Frémont. In the following year he continued the survey by steamboat and also explored the sources of the Red River and the North Dakota country. When he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1840, he prepared some of the first accurate maps of the region northwest of the Mississippi River. In these projects he worked closely with the eminent Swiss émigré Ferdinand Hassler, chief of the U.S. Coast Survey.The significance of Nicollet's life in the United States was as an explorer and mapmaker. A scientist of note, he was one of the illustrious circle of talented, adventurous, and highly skilled men who gathered around Hassler. That group developed the first accurate scientific data about the still-unknown regions of the Mississippi Valley. In his brief career as a pioneer explorer he contributed much to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and to more accurate knowledge of the Native Americans in that area" (Gerald D. Nash for ADNB). Nicollet's celebrated "Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River", reduced by Emory and first published separately in 1842, was "based on some 90,000 instrument readings and 326 distinctly determined astronomical points. With its overall regional concept of a 'hydrographic basin,' Nicollet's map and the accompanying report were years ahead of their time. Had he lived one more decade, Nicollet would undoubtedly have become the official government cartographer of the whole trans-Mississippi West" (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, 1993, p. 313). Buck 339. Graff 3022. Howes N152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg (Plate 165), pp. 265-68; Sabin 55257; Streeter III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Verlag: Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Senate Executive Document No. 7, 30th Congress, 1st Session., 1848
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8). Large folding lithographed map "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas Rio Del Norte River and Rio Gila" in pocket at end (unevenly browned and with small tears at folds), 40 lithographed plates, including 26 views, Native Americans, and natural history by Edward Weber, many after…drawings by John Mix Stanley, 12 botanical images by Endicott, and two others, 4 full-page maps. Original brown cloth, printed paper label on the spine (rebacked preserving the original spine); modern brown cloth slipcase. Provenance: with the bookplate of the Harvard University Library of the Graduate School of Business Administration on the front paste-down, their blind stamp at the head of the title-page, with their ink discard stamps on the front paste-down and verso of title-page. First edition, Senate issue, later printing with Emory's rank given as Lt. Col., rather than Brevet Major, but with plates in the preferred state by Weber. "December 16, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 1,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate'. The four full-page maps are "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", and "Sketch of the Battle of Los Angeles Upper California. Fought between the Americans and Mexicans Jany. 9th. 1847". Emory was an accomplished topographical engineer and scientist, and this is a landmark study of the lands which had just been taken from the Mexican government. A southwest book of primary importance. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America.the report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." - Wagner-Camp 148:2; Cowan, p. 195; Graff 1249; Howes E145; Wheat Transmississippi 544; Zamorano Eighty 33.
Verlag: Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Executive Document No. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session., 1848
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"8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8). Large folding lithographed maps ". of the Territory of New Mexico" and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke", 64 plates of views Native Americans, and natural history lithographed by Graham, 3 battle plans: "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" (some occasionally heavy spotting and browning). Modern black cloth, facsimile printed paper label on spine. Provenance: presented to James S. Copley by Captain E. Robert Anderson in 1967, and Copley's bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume, his sale, Sotheby's New York "Magnificent American, Historical Documents", 10th May 2011, lot 1059. First edition, House of Representatives issue, later printing with Emory's rank given as Lt. Col., rather than Brevet Major. This issue was not published with the large folding map found in the Senate issue. Emory was an accomplished topographical engineer and scientist, and this is a landmark study of the lands which had just been taken from the Mexican government. A southwest book of primary importance. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North Americathe report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." Cowan p.195; (Graff 1249); Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Wheat Transmississippi 505 & 532; Zamorano Eighty 33. Catalogued by Kate Hunter".
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1st Edition. "8vo., (8 7/8 x 5 4/8 inches).Large folding lithographed map "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas Rio Del Norte River and Rio Gila" in pocket at end (unevenly browned and with closed repaired tears, folds strengthened on verso), 40 lithographed plates, including 26 views, Native Americans, and natural history by… Edward Weber, many after drawings by John Mix Stanley, 12 botanical images by Endicott, and two others, 4 full-page maps. Original brown cloth, printed paper label on the spine (rebacked preserving the original spine); modern green cloth slipcase and chemise Provenance: with the fine PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION OF JEFFERSON DAVIS (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America and U.S. senator: "Cha.s. Abert, Esq from his friend Jefferson Davis Aug 16 - 1848" on the front paste-down; the pencilled ownership inscription of R. Kearney at the head of the title-page; with the bookplate of Jay Snyder, his sale Christie's New York, 21st June, 2005. First edition, Senate issue, later printing with Emory's rank given as Lt. Col., rather than Brevet Major, but with plates in the preferred state by Weber. The four full-page maps are "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", and "Sketch of the Battle of Los Angeles Upper California. Fought between the Americans and Mexicans Jany. 9th. 1847". A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by Jefferson Davis to the son of one of America's most celebrated topographical engineers John James Abert, a close associate of John James Audubon, and who played an important part in Westward expansion. "Abert used the Mexican War (1846-1848) to highlight the importance of his engineers; in the corps's annual report of 1848, he stated that they were "the eyes of the commanding general . . . With these he can see the country, and can know how to direct and combine all his movements or marches, whether offensive or defensive, and without them he is literally groping in the dark." Their explorations facilitated the construction of civil and military posts and roads in the West that were "the pioneers of civilization and wealth" (Mary M. Thomas for ADNB). As head of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, it was Abert who submitted Emory's report to Congress (see his letter of introduction pages 3 and 4). In August of 1847 Davis accepted an appointment to the U.S. Senate, he "was soon involved in the first of a half-dozen near duels that marked his political career, this one with Mississippi's other senator, Henry S. Foote. On the Senate floor Davis was outspoken and strongly expansionist. He favored annexing large amounts of Mexican territory and declared that the Gulf of Mexico belonged to the United States. He also began to speak in defense of slavery and southern interests in the territories. His harsh criticism of abolitionists and his insistent, energetic defense of what he viewed as southern rights soon made him a rising spokesman for his native region" (Paul D. Escott for DNB). Emory was an accomplished topographical engineer and scientist, and this is a landmark study of the lands which had just been taken from the Mexican government. A southwest book of primary importance. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North Americathe report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." - Wagner-Camp 148:2; Cowan, p. 195; Graff 1249; Howes E145; Wheat Transmississippi 544; Zamorano Eighty 33. Catalogued by Kate Hunter".
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1st Edition. "8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8). "Map of the Territory of New Mexico" (detached) and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke." 61 plates of views Native Americans, and natural history lithographed by Graham, 3 battle plans: "Sketch of the Actions Fought at San Pasqual in Upper California between the Am…ericans 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". Original brown cloth, printed paper label on the spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: With a small albumen print photograph of Emory (3 4/8 x 2 inches) and a portion of an autograph note signed by him loosely inserted in a envelope from John Howell Bookseller to Kenneth M. Johnson post-marked 1965; 20th-Century ownership inscription of Edith P. Kennedy on the recto of the front free endpaper First edition, House of Representatives issue, later printing with Emory's rank given as Lt. Col., rather than Brevet Major. This issue was not published with the large folding map found in the Senate issue. Emory was an accomplished topographical engineer and scientist, and this is a landmark study of the lands which had just been taken from the Mexican government. A southwest book of primary importance. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North Americathe report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology- concerned with primitive man." Cowan p.195; (Graff 1249); Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Wheat Transmississippi 505 & 532; Zamorano Eighty 33. Catalogued by Kate Hunter".
