102. EMORY, William H. Report of the United
States and Mexican Boundary Survey by William H. Emory,
Major First Cavalry & U.S. Commissioner.
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. xvi, 258,
viii, 174 pp., 2 maps (1 folding): (1) Map of the United
States and Their Territories Between the Mississippi and
the Pacific Ocean and Part of Mexico.... Washington:
Selmar Siebert (50 x 87 cm: 19-5/8 x 34-1/4 inches); (2)
untitled map showing magnetic variation, 12 colored
lithograph plates, 73 steel engravings on 41 plates, 20
woodcut illustrations (Part 1), and 21 engraved plates
(paleontology), 25 engraved and woodcut illustrations (Part
2). Large 4to, original pictorial embossed cloth, gilt
title on spine. Minor chipping at spinal extremities and
slight shelf wear. Some foxing to only a few of the
lithographs. As is often the case, the colored geological
map for part 2, which was inserted loosely into the volume
at publication, is not present. A beautiful copy of an
important book.
First
edition. Basic Texas Books 57: "One of the most
significant of all government reports on western and
southern Texas." Bennett, American Nineteenth Century
Color Plate Books, p. 41. Field 500. Howes E146.
Plains & Rockies IV:291. Raines, p. 76. Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi West, IV, pp. 84-91.
Pingenot: An exhaustive and important source of
information on the natural history of the Southwest from
Texas to California, with descriptions of the Indians and
the geographical and geological features of the boundary
region. Contains numerous maps and beautiful lithograph
plates. The technical sections of the work were prepared by
distinguished scientists and scholars.
($250-500)