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[AMERICAN WEST]. MACOMB, John Navarre and John Strong NEWBERRY. Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West. Washington: Government Office, 1876.
4to. 22 lithographs (11 chromolithographs), large folding map at rear. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine gently sunned, some spotting to upper cover). Provenance: Poland Spring Library (bookplates on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title-page).
FIRST EDITION of the 1859 expedition in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah with “one of the most beautiful maps ever published by the Army…It will stand for a long time as perhaps the finest produced by the curious and revealing, yet evanescent, method” (Wheat, Transmississippi West IV:983). Graff 2647; Howes M-178.