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Washington, D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson / Cornelius Wendell. Very Good. 1857, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. William H. Emory was appointed commissioner of the United States and Mexico Boundary Survey following John Russell Bartlett, who was MIA from the survey upon Emory's arrival to assume his appointment. Emory was left to scrap together an effective survey party and obtain an accurate survey of the border after previous errors had ceded the Mesilla Valley, important in constructing a trans-continental railroad, to Mexico. The Gadsden Purchase had corrected this, but also added new territory to be surveyed. In addition to helping to clear up the boundary controversy, Emory's accounts were important in noting that the deserts of the southwest were not an agrarian paradise, and his team assembled a wealth of natural history and anthropological observations. This report is also notable for the illustrations, with many plates of scenery, plants, animals, and in…
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Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior (Volume 1: Parts 1 & 2)
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Washington, D.C: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. First edition. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good-Small chips to head and bottom of spine and corners of boards. Hinges are tender but intact Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Original cloth stamped in blind, spines gilt, 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Uncommon & important volume detailing the Texas/Mexican border country in the 1850s. Volume 1 only (of 2) containting Parts 1 & 2 of the survey prepared for the 34th Congress, 1st Sess. Part 1: the General Survey Report at 258 plages + 54 plates (several of them hand-colored lithos), 1 foldout map & numerous in-text illustrations. Part 2: Geological Reports of C. C. Parry and A. Schlott, Notes by W. H. Emory, Paleontology and Geology by James Hall, Description of Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils by J. A. Conrad at 174 pages + 21 plates + numerous intext illustrations. Brown boards with embossed designs. The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848-1855) set the boundary between the United States and Mexico according to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War. The results of the survey were published in this Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory, a highly skilled American Army officer, topographer and geologist; Emory (1811-1887) made many notable geographical and geological studies of the American southwest. Besides documenting the new political boundary, the survey report was notable for its natural history content, including paleontology, botany, icthhylogy, ornithology, and mammalogy. The hand-colored lithographs of scenery and ethnography are notable as historical records of that period. Shipping will be extra because of the heavy weight (approx. 10 lbs).
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Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
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Washington, D.C.:: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1857.. First edition.. publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked with new (and new-looking) gilt-lettered spines. . Plate at p. 107 foxed; plates at pp. 122-123 foxed and chipped at edges; title page in Vol. II remargined and the first 17 pp. have a slash at the fore-edge extending into the text. . Folio,. Illustrated from lithographs (some color); charts, maps and profiles.. Wagner-Capm 291; Howes E-146.
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Washington, printed by AOP Nicholson, Cornelius Wendell, 1857-59, First edition, mixed Senate and House documents. . mixed cloth bindings, including original cloth, 2 volumes in rebound cloth, cover wear, minor foxing on few leaves, mostly marginal, stain in margin of one title page, one volume with library stamp on cover & title, interiors very good, sound set. . 4to [29.5 x 24 cm]; 4 parts in 3 volumes, xvi, 258; viii, 174; 62, 35, 32, 85, ii; 270; 78 pp, 347 plates including 25 hand colored of birds, 12 colored of views & native peoples, 3 large folding maps (1 colored with 4 inch tear), 2 other maps/charts. . This is one of the first scientific explorations of the area including its natural history, botany, geography, geology. The boundary delineated by Emory as described in this work demonstrates his competence and skill since it remains largely unchanged today. A cornerstone work on the exploration and mapping of the US southwest and the Texas-Mexican border. Besides Emory's…
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Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior - Two Volumes
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Washington D,C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1857. Volume 2 published in 1859 by Nicholson. The Senate Issue(s), 2 Volumes; [355] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.), map, col. ports. New Spines on original boards. Ex-library copy (but only the title page shows imprint of the library (Reference copies). Ref.: Howes E146; Sabin 22538. All plates appear to be present. [United States] Congress (34th, 1st session : [1856]). Senate. Ex. doc. ;; no. 108; Exceedingly scarce - massive 2 volume set.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, 1857. . First edition, senate issue; 2 vols bound in 3; 4to; numerous plates, including some coloured, folding maps and plans, some small tears, minor offsetting to plates; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt ruled, spine in parts with gilt tooling and title, covers worn, a good copy. Contains volumes on Botany, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Fish, including 75 specimen plates of cacti.
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