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14. BARTLETT, John R. Personal Narrative of
Explorations...in Texas, New Mexico, California...Connected
with the Mexican Boundary Commission.... New York:
Appleton, 1854. [2] xxii, 506 [6] + [2] xviii, 624 pp.,
folding map, 16 tinted lithographic plates (2 folding),
numerous woodcut plates and woodcuts in text. 2 vols., 8vo,
original green cloth, gilt pictorial spines. Occasional
foxing and some rubbing but overall a very good set. Small
ink stamp of former owner on Vol. 1 title-page.
First
edition. Abbey 658. Basic Texas Books 12. Cowan,
p. 36. Graff 298: "An essential book for the Southwest."
Hill, p. 18: "First thoroughly scholarly description of the
Southwest." Howes B201. Plains & Rockies
IV:234:1. Wheat, Gold Regions 252; Mapping the
Transmississippi West 798: "Among the most important
Western maps...excellent early map showing Gadsden Purchase
Boundary." Pingenot: Bartlett arrived at Indianola,
Texas, in August, 1850, with 105 scientists, artists,
teamsters, and surveyors, escorted by 85 soldiers. His
narrative gives a day-by-day account of their movements to
San Antonio, Fredericksburg, El Paso, thence to San Diego
and back to El Paso, down into Mexico, back up to Ringgold
Barracks, and finally to Corpus Christi on New Year’s
Day, 1853. Thomas W. Streeter called this work "the first
thoroughly scholarly description of the Southwest."
($500-1,000)
