JAMES - Expedition to Rocky Mountains, reprint c1950
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JAMES, Edwin (1797-1861). Reprint of the Atlas volume to Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819, and '20 &under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822. Quarto. (10 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches). Small frontispiece portrait of John C. Calhoun. Atlas: 11 plates and maps (2 double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; 1 double-page plate of geological cross-sections; 8 plates [1 colored] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1] and one unassigned, engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Brown cloth, gilt lettering. Reprint edition of the atlas to one of the most important early Western expeditions. American Imprints 12942; Graff 2188; Howes J41; Sabin 35682; Streeter sale 3:1783; Wagner-Camp 25:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 353; see Nicholas and Halley, Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration (1995) (for the original work).
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