Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This copy bears on the first blank a presentation inscription dated 29 May 1856 in Boston from Robert C. Winthrop to The Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. Winthrop, orator and statesman was a descendant of Governor John Winthrop (1588-1649) and served as the Massachusetts Historical Society President 1855-1885, as well as President of the Peabody Trust from 1867 until his death in 1894. 10,250 copies were printed, yet vey scarce.

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