Heading: (Zamorano 80)
Author: Emory, William H.
Title: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Wendell and Van Benthuysen
Date Published: 1848
Description:

416 pp. Illustrated with 40 lithographed plates, including 14 botanical plates; 3 battle plans; and large folding map (76x165 cm) titled "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas Rio Del Norte and Rio Gila" loose inside case. 22.5x13.7 cm (8?x5?"), period brown cloth, paper spine label; cloth clamshell case. First Edition, Senate Issue 1.

Inscribed by Emory to F.P. Corbin. This is the first Senate issue of the book, with Emory's rank still Lieut. Col. (later changed to Brevet Major). A superb study by topographical engineer and scientist Emory of the lands newly wrested from the Mexican government. As Wagner-Camp notes, "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." Senate Executive No. 7, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Cowan p.195; Graff 1249; Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:2; Wheat Transmississippi 544; Zamorano 80 #33.

Slight wear to cloth, corners a touch bumped; rear hinge cracked with spine strip detached, map pocket and rear cover separated from the text block, pages and map faintly age-toned with scattered foxing, map intact with a two-inch ink drip stain on rear and some minor edgewear; very good internally and deserving of repair.