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[AMERICANA]. EMORY, W[illiam] H. (1811-1887). Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. 8vo. Illustrated with 43 plates and several intertextual illustrations (the uncommon pair of folding maps are absent, as is most common). 416 pp. Bound in modern full green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (light rubbing, bumping to binding, text toned, some occasional soiling, title-page with some scuffing, soiling, a few small tears, final page with some light scuffing). Good. FIRST EDITION (SENATE ISSUE) OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAVEL BOOKS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, AND A VALUABLE EARLY GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA. "His report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America the report includes sections on the plants and animals, as well as on the geology and the prehistoric town sites and other archeological remains. Emory's descriptions of the various Indian tribes that he encountered were steps toward the newly-forming discipline -Anthropology - concerned with primitive man." (Wagner-Camp). Wagner-Camp 148-5. Sabin 22536. Zamorano Eighty 33.
 [AMERICANA]. EMORY, W[illiam] H. (1811-1887). Notes of a Mi...
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