Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego in California

by W. H. Emory

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First edition

Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First edition, Senate issue preceded by the House issue , 8vo, pp. 416; with 40 lithograph plates and 3 sketch maps, and without the large folding map which was not in all copies - Howes. With the bookplate of the railroad baron, James J. Hill, with the perforated stamp of the library he founded in the margin of the title-p. touching 1 letter , and with accession numbers on spine; original brown cloth, spine

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