Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, during Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico

by Josiah Gregg

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, second issue, with a dual New York and London imprint in volume one. 2 steel-engraved frontispieces, 4 wood-engraved plates, and 2 engraved maps one folding . Small tear to upper right margin of folding map, with loss of 3 x 1 inches piece of map; 3 text vignettes. 320; 318 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Original gilt cloth. Both volumes rebacked, preserving original spines. Volume two binding without gilt pictorial stamp, thus probably a married set.

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