75/ 943 [America]. Emory, W.H. 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. Wash., Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848, 416p., large fold. lithogr. map in rear pocket (±80x180 cm.), 41 plates (incl. 3 maps/ plans), contemp. cl. w. ticket on spine.

- Text and some plates sl. foxed; most plates remarkably clean and the large map fine (only a few sm. creases and tiny tears on intersection of folds); owner's stamp on upper pastedown and fore-edge. Binding worn along extremities; spine-ends repaired.

= Edition Senate Executive, No. 7, w. the author's rank given as Brevet Major. Sabin 22536; Howes E145. Rare, especially with the folding map.