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Author: Emory, William H.
Title: Report of the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior ... Volume I.
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Nicholson
Date Published: 1857
Description:

Volume One (two parts) only. xvi, 258; viii, 174 pp. xvi, 258; viii, 174 pp. Large folding map, steel-engraved frontispiece, 94 steel-engraved plates (mostly half-page, generally browned with some foxing), 12 colored lithographs (with offsetting from text, some spotting), 3 folding charts, other illustrations in text,. (4to) original blindstamped brown cloth. Senate Issue. 34th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 108.

Frederic Remington's copy, with his bookplate. Report on government explorations in the Southwest, noteworthy for the striking illustrations as well as the text. Wagner-Camp notes that "Emory's writing style and system of organization lacks the quality of John C. Fremont, but the scientific content of the Report is indeed comparable to Fremont's earlier Narrative, according to William H. Goetzmann. Although Emory had been a key member of the Commission ever since its beginning, his narrative of his own adventures is sketchy and inadequate, and reflects in it some of his animosity toward John Bartlett. Emory's own contribution to the Report is cartographic; as the Commission's chief astronomer, he had made most of the several thousand observations which were incorporated into the maps...."

Corners bumped, hinges repaired; some foxing and offsetting; very good.