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rif. 46524By Montgomery Martin Esq. late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-Kong; and member of Her Majesty's Legislative Council in China. London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company J. & F. Tallis circa 1851. Six volumes bound in twelve which are labelled as 'Divisions' quarto publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth each volume skilfully rebacked some loss to the cloth on the spines the title pages to the six volumes i. British North America; II. Australia; III. New Zealand Tasmania etc.; IV. Africa and the West Indies; V. British India; VI. Ceylon East India and Mediterranean Settlements bound at the rear of Division XII so that the owner can bind the set into six volumes to their style publishers printed advertisement on the pastedown of Division I announcing that the set would be 'completed in eight Divisions' in fact there were twelve publisher's advertisements; paginated as follows: Division I : ii - publisher's advertisements; engraved frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth; engraved title page; engraved portraits of Sir Walter Raleigh and Francis Bacon; tissue guards pp. xxiv; 168; with four fine steel engraved double page maps of The World; British America; East Canada and New Brunswick; and West Canada each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division II : iv - publisher's advertisements; engraved portraits of Queen Anne Prince Rupert William Pitt Sir Francis Drake; tissue guards pp.169 - 360; with two fine steel engraved double page maps of North America; Nova Scotia and Newfoundland each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division III lettered on spine 'Australasia' : viii - publisher's advertisements; viii - advertisements for emigrants packet ships to Australia Australian banks and general retailers; engraved portraits of Captain Cook Sir Joseph Banks William Pitt; tissue guards pp. 361 - 568; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Eastern Hemisphere; Australia; and New South Wales each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division IV lettered on spine 'Australia' : viii - publisher's advertisements; engraved portraits of Horatio Viscount Nelson; Richard First Earl Howe; John Locke; tissue guards pp. 569 - 744; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Western Australia Swan River; Part of South Australia; Victoriaor Port Phillip each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division V lettered on spine 'N. Zealand &c.' : xiv - publisher's advertisements and notice on the Abolition of a Duty on Paper; engraved portraits of Admiral Lord Hawke; Samuel First Viscount Hood; Augustus Viscount Keppel; tissue guards pp. 1 - 192; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Van Diemen's Land or Tasmania; New Zealand; Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division VI lettered on spine 'British Possessions in Pacific' : xvi - publisher's advertisements; engraved portraits of King Charles the Second; Lucius Carey Viscount Falkland; tissue guards pp. 193 - 384; with four fine steel engraved double page maps of Western Hemisphere; South America; Falkland Islands and Patagonia; and The World on Mercator's Projection shewing the voyages of Captain Cook round the world each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division VII lettered on spine 'British Possessions in Africa' : xii - publisher's advertisements; engraved portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby; tissue guard pp. 1 - 208; with five fine steel engraved double page maps of Africa; Cape Colony; Natal and Kaffraria; Western Africa; Islands in the Atlantic each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division VIII lettered on spine 'British Possessions in the W. Indies' : xii - publisher's advertisements; engraved portrait of George Lord Rodney; tissue guard pp. 1 - 188; with five fine steel engraved double page maps of West India Islands; Jamaica; Central America; British Guayana; Isthmus of Panama each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division IX lettered on spine 'British Possessions in Asia' : xii - publisher's advertisements; engraved portraits of Robert First Lord Clive; Sir William Jones; Charles Marquis Cornwallis; tissue guards half-title title page pp. 1 - 180; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Asia; British India; Cabool The Punjab and Beloochistan each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division X lettered on spine 'British Possessions in Asia' : x - publisher's advertisements; engraved portraits of a statue of The Duke of Wellington; a statue of The Marquis of Wellesley; George Clifford Earl of Cumberland; tissue guards pp. 1 - 180; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Northern India; Southern India; Overland Route to India; each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division XI lettered on spine 'British Possessions in Asia' : xii - publisher's advertisements; engravings of Lord George Russell; a group of portraits of nobility; The Siege of Mooltan 1849; The surrender of two sons of Tippoo Sultan; tissue guards pp. 373 - 564; with two fine steel engraved double page maps of Tibet Mongolia and Mandchouria; Independent Tartary each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. Division XII lettered on spine 'British Possessions in the Mediterranean' : xii - publisher's advertisements; engravings of Gibralter; Valletta; Corfu; tissue guards pp. 1 - 172; six title sheets bound at rear; six leaves of indices for the six volumes; with three fine steel engraved double page maps of Ceylon; Malay Archipelago or East Indian Islands; British Possessions in the Mediterranean each with outline hand colouring light scattered foxing. A fine complete set of Martin's encyclopaedic survey of The British Empire at its height in the Victorian era with portraits engraved scenes and 40 highly detailed hand coloured steel engraved maps by Rapkin. Provenance : Several volumes are inscribed with the previous owner's name 'Richard R. Montgomery' dated 1953 who we can assume is a relation of Robert Montgomery Martin. hardcover

ROUTH, Guy MontgomeryBiblio.com

Ordnance N. & S. Persia 1918.

1936rif. 167956Naini Tal: privately printed 1936. I was able to visualize the cure for many of the anxieties now threatening to overwhelm the hopelessly inadequate staff First edition of this scarce minutely detailed account of two important and underreported campaigns to protect British interests from German influence in Persia and Afghanistan written by an intelligent and observant officer. We have traced a single institutional copy only Imperial War Museum. Commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900 Colonel Routh 1882-1962 subsequently served in India transferring to the Indian Ordnance Department in 1908. He served in East Africa 1914-16 Mesopotamia 1916-18 and in the final months of the war as Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for "Dunsterforce" and the South Persia Field Force. His distinguished military career in India ended on his retirement in 1936. Fluent in Arabic Persian and Urdu he was an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society. These two parts belong to Routh's War Memoirs of Eastern Campaigns a multi-volume continuously paginated series also covering his service in East Africa Mesopotamia and Waziristan. In the first concerning Dunsterforce Routh analyses the inception of the campaign comments on Dunsterville and his staff and explains the changing operational role that required his logistical expertise: "Dunsterville a fine Russian scholar of the Indian Army arrived in Basra en route to North Persia in Jan. 1918. His choice of staff had naturally fallen mainly on Colonials whose ribbons indicated a high degree of gallantry but complete ignorance of the east and its tongues and methods of working. There were so many points of similarity with my past campaign in East Africa that I was able to visualize the cure for many of the anxieties now threatening to overwhelm the hopelessly inadequate staff attempting to administer the Force. Knowing Persia and the Persians it seemed to me that an urgent need was an organized system of equipping the growing military personnel" pp. 292-4. In his narrative of operations an appealing 20-page section "Circumstances leading up to the appointment of D.A.D.O.S." describes his work in Persia with the intelligence officer Gerard Leachman Sir Arnold Wilson and Gertrude Bell. "It was one of Miss Bell's foibles to despise the shallow soldier in his superficial outlook on life" p. 327. Part II on South Persia covers September-October 1918 when the two brigades at Bushire were organized to open a cart road to Shiraz on the Central Persian Plateau. Routh recounts the ordnance situation on his arrival and provides extracts from his diary and other materials. Octavo 239 x 157 mm. With 3 mounted folding mimeographed maps 2 with hand colouring tipped-in letterpress form for local purchase of stores; tables in text. Original brown cloth recently rebacked and re-cornered in dark half calf front board with title in gilt on red label cream endpapers. Binding a little rubbed and marked contents toned one map and first and last leaves with a little browning: very good. hardcover

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MONTGOMERY, T[homas] H[arrison], JrBiblio.com

Collection of 13 offprints

1911rif. 138111911. FIRST EDITIONS. Bound together in black buckram. Ex-library Scripps Institution for Biological Research. A compendium of Montgomery’s papers on cytology and zoology. Montgomery 1873-1912 was a distinguished professor and chairman of the Department of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he only lived to age thirty-nine he was a prolific researcher and produced more than eighty papers between 1894 and his death in 1912. His work focused on cytology morphology and taxonomy though he also made contributions to the fields of phylogeny animal distribution and ecology. DSB describes his conclusions from the celebrated work “A study of the chromosomes of the germ cells of metazoa” included in this collection as “containing the essentials of the chromosomal basis of biparental inheritance . . . announced just prior to the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of segregation and recombination. Despite what seems in retrospect an unimaginative and narrow interpretation it appears undeniable that the speed with which Sutton Wilson and others subsequently established the correlation with the rediscovered laws of inheritance was due in large measure to Montgomery’s masterly analysis – not the least aspect of which was its clarifying terminology.” The papers herein contain other considerable contributions. In addition to Montgomery’s work which was basic to the theory of sex determination other papers “brought order to the rather chaotic views of the nucleolus by clearly distinguishing “chromatin nucleoli’ among which were the heterochromosomes from the plasmosomes or true nucleoli. Noteworthy in his 1911 paper was Montgomery’s confirmation of observations on fixed material by examining cells teased out in a physiological fluid. This degree of sophistication was not attained by other cytologists for nearly two decades” DSB. DAB XII pp. 99-100; DSB IX pp. 495-497; Hughes A History of Cytology p. 84 Papers include: “A study of the chromosomes of the germ cells of metazoa.” Offprint from the American Philosophical Society January 1901. 4to. pp. 154-236. With 4 plates. Original printed front wrapper signed with “author’s compliments.” “Peculiarities of the terrestrial larva of the urodelous batrachian plethodon cinereus green.” Offprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia August 1901. 8vo. pp. 503-508. With 1 plate. Original printed front wrapper signed with “author’s compliments.” “Studies on the habits of spiders particularly those of the mating period.” Offprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia January 1903. 8vo. pp. 59-149. With 2 plates. Original printed front wrapper. “On the morphology of the rotatorian family flosculariidæ.” Offprint from the Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia May 1903. 8vo. pp. 363-395. With 4 plates 3 folding. Original printed front wrapper. “Supplementary notes on spiders of the genera lycosa pardosa pirata and dolomedes from the Northeastern United States.” Offprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia October 1903. 8vo. pp. 645-655. With 1 plate. Original printed front wrapper. “On floscularia conklini nov. spec. with a key for the identification of the known species of the genus.” Offprint from the Biological Bulletin September 1903. 8vo. pp. 233-238. Sewn as issued. “The main facts in regard to the cellular basis of heredity.” Offprint from Proceedings American Philosophical Society read January 1904. 8vo. pp. 5-14. Sewn as issued. “Descriptions of North American araneæ of the families lycosidæ and pisauridæ. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia March 1904. 8vo. pp. 261-323. With 3 plates. Original printed front wrapper. “Chromosomes in the spermatogenesis of the hemiptera heteroptera.” Offprint from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1906. 4to. pp. 97-173. With 5 plates. Original printed front wrapper. “The development of theridium an aranead up to the stage of reversion. Offprint from the Journal of Morphology July 1909. 8vo. pp. 297-352 with 8 plates. Original printed front wrapper; pp. 350-352 and 8 plates misbound after next offprint “Differentiation of the human cells of sertoli.” 2 misbound plates from “On the dimegalous sperm. . . .” directly follow “The development of theridium. . . .” “Differentiation of the human cells of sertoli.” Offprint from the Biological Bulletin November 1911. 8vo. pp. 367-388. With 5 plates. “Are particular chromosomes sex determinants” Offprint from the Biological Bulletin. June 1910. 8vo. 17 pp. “On the dimegalous sperm and chromosomal variation of euschistus with reference to chromosomal continuity.” Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 1910. Offprint from Archiv für Zellforschung. 8vo. i pp. 120-145. With 1 text figure and 2 plates. Original printed front wrapper; 2 plates are misbound and follow “The development of theridium. . . .”. unknown

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MONTGOMERY, T[homas] H[arrison], JrABAA

Collection of 13 offprints

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PIKE, Zebulon MontgomeryBiblio.com

Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de binnenlanden van Louisiana voorgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen der Mississippi gedaan op last van het gouvernement der Vereenigde Staten in de jaren 1805 1806 1807

1812rif. HALCSZKGO2PHAmsterdam 1812. 8vo. Cornelis Timmer colophon: printed by A. Breeman & Co. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf with a red morocco title label on the spine. With 3 engraved folding maps: the first two showing the interior of Louisiana and the third the Mississippi River. 2 volumes. VIII 327 1; 4 374 pp. First and only edition of the Dutch translation of a well-known account of the two expeditions of the United States soldier and explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike 1779-1813: searching for the sources of the Mississippi River and exploring New Mexico and the western parts of Louisiana. "For several years he Pike served with the frontier army restlessly awaiting an opportunity to distinguish himself. At length it came when Gen. James Wilkinson directed him to lead an exploring party to the source of the Mississippi. Afterwards The young lieutenant was dispatched upon a longer and more important expedition setting out from St. Louis on July 1 1806. He was instructed to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to reconnoitre the Spanish settlements of New Mexico After returning to the United States Pike found his name coupled . with the Burr-Wilkinson scheme for empire in the Southwest" DAB.The folding maps are reinforced in the gutter and the second half of the second volume browned and with some foxing otherwise in good condition only slightly trimmed preserving the tranchefiles. Front hinge cracked but the front board still attached spine chipped and some other general wear.l Sabin 62840 2 maps; Streeter Texas 1047B; cf. DAB XIV pp. 599-600; Howgego 1800-1850 P27-28. AMERICAS EXPLORATION & TRAVEL TRAVEL & VOYAGES North America Travel & Voyages North America unknown

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ROUTH, Guy MontgomeryBiblio.com

An Ordnance Officer in East Africa 1914-16.

1936rif. 187103Naini Tal: privately printed 1936. A granular record of the First World War in East Africa and Persia First edition one of 30 copies only. These minutely detailed accounts of Colonel Routh's service form part of his War Memoirs of Eastern Campaigns a multi-volume continuously paginated series also covering his service in Mesopotamia and Waziristan. Written to share vital lessons learned in these theatres the memoirs are also invaluable records for military historians. Commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900 Routh 1882-1962 transferred to the Indian Ordnance Department in 1908. He served in East Africa 1914-16 Mesopotamia 1916-18 and in the final months of the war as Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for "Dunsterforce" and the South Persia Field Force. Fluent in Arabic Persian and Urdu he was an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society. Concerning East Africa Routh reproduces letters to the Director of Ordnance Stores in Simla quotes from his war diary and provides a special section on Smuts's advance in 1916. The Persia section analyses the inception of Dunsterforce comments on Dunsterville and his staff and explains how he drew on his experiences in East Africa to "visualize the cure for many of the anxieties now threatening to overwhelm the hopelessly inadequate staff attempting to administer the Force" p. 294. A 20-page section describes his dealings with the intelligence officer Gerard Leachman Sir Arnold Wilson and Gertrude Bell. The second part covers September-October 1918 when the two brigades at Bushire were organized to open a cart road to Shiraz on the Central Persian Plateau. Provenance: Humphrey Winterton the major travel collector with his book label on the inside of the custom box. This was number 587 in Maggs Catalogue 1343 From the Abyssinian Expedition to the Mau Mau Insurrection: The African Library of Humphrey Winterton 2003. Octavo. With 5 folding mimeographed maps mimeographed diagram laid down on p. 266 6 folding letterpress forms and tables tables in text. Original black cloth printed labels on spine and front cover. Housed in black quarter morocco custom box. Binding lightly worn split at foot of front joint front inner hinge starting maps toned blank leaf with tipped-in map of East Africa now loosely inserted: very good. hardcover

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt (screenwriters); John Huston (director); Montgomery Clift, Susannah York,ABAA

Freud Freud: The Secret Passion Archive of original scripts and other ephemera including Jean-Paul Sartre's treatment script with annotations in Sartre's hand for the 1962 film

1965rif. 158800N.p.: N.p. 1965. Archive of vintage treatments scripts and other ephemera from the 1962 film. Archive includes: Two carbon typescript treatment scripts by Jean-Paul Sartre one in English and one in French both dated December 15 1958 with annotations in Sartre's hand. An early xerographically duplicated draft of Sartre's voluminous three-part script a later reproduction made for internal use with copied annotations throughout. A working script used during the film's production with revision pages. A film program. Three telegrams a telefax and a letter regarding the release of the film the return of Sartre's treatments and script and a deposition reminder all from agent Paul Kohner to director John Huston. A copy of the 1984 posthumous publication of Sartre's script The Freud Scenario. Huston announced his intention to make a film about a young Sigmund Freud in 1958 and asked Sartre whom he had met on the set of his 1952 film Moulin Rouge to submit a screenplay. The partnership quickly soured however due to Sartre's refusal to shorten his script which had ballooned to the colossal 472-page script on offer. Huston and Sartre would meet in Galway but Sartre continued to reject the director's proposed cuts wryly noting "We can make a film of four hours in the case of Ben Hur but the Texas public couldn't stand four hours of complexes." The film was ultimately finished and released in 1962 and although many elements of Sartre's script remain in the film the philosopher went uncredited. Set in Vienna shot on location in Austria and Germany. French Treatment: Salmon untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 15 Décembre 1958 noted as Scénario original with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Carbon typescript copy on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine saddle-stapled with two staples. English Treatment: Tan untitled wrappers with a titled label noted as Original Outline on the front wrapper with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. Title page present dated December 15 1958 noted as 1. Draft with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Carbon typescript copy on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three screw brads. Xerographically duplicated Sartre Script: White untitled wrappers. 472 leaves with last page of text numbered 181. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling overall bound internally with three gold brads. Working Script: Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue buff and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/8/61 and 12/19/61. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lacking rear wrapper and much of the spine bound with a prong binding. Telegrams telefax and letter: 6.5 x 4.5 to 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Program: 7 x 8.5 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus. Book: Near Fine and unread in a lightly rubbed Very Good plus dust jacket. N.p. unknown books

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PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813)Biblio.com

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw Kans La Platte and Pierre Jaun Rivers . during the years 1805 1806 and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain . in the year 1807

1810rif. 27020Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns published by C. & A. Conrad & Co. of Philadelphia Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal Conrad & Co. of Norfolk and Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore 1810. 8vo. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Stipple-engraved India paper proof portrait frontispiece of Pike by Edwin 6 engraved maps 5 folding 3 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary tree calf boards rebacked in calf and retaining original gilt morocco spine label. One of the most important of all American travel narratives: the first edition of the report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest including an account of Pike's exploration of the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers the sources of the Mississippi River and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike's narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark and Long as the most important of early books on western exploration and as a cornerstone of Western Americana. "In 1805 Pike was given the difficult assignment of conducting a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi region. He was ordered to explore the headwaters of that river to purchase sites from the Indians for further military posts and to bring a few influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. The trip was only moderately successful as a mission to the tribes but Pike was able to convey important geographical information to President Jefferson and other Washington officials. On Pike's second expedition 1806-1807 he was assigned to explore the head-waters of the Arkansas River then proceed south and descend the Red River from its source . Pike and his men were taken into custody by a Spanish patrol and Pike was able to observe many areas in New Mexico Chihuahua and Texas . His book created interest in the Southwest and stimulated the expansionist movement in Texas" Hill. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on first-hand exploration and are considered "milestones in the mapping of the American West" Wheat. "The description of Texas is excellent" Streeter Texas. Bradford 4415; Braislin 1474; Field 1217; Graff 3290; Hill 2004 1357; Howes P373; Jones 743; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62836; Streeter Sale 3125; Streeter Texas 1047C; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Wheat Transmississippi 297 298 299. Printed by John Binns, published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co. of Philadelphia, Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal, Conrad, unknown

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PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813)ABAA

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw Kans La Platte and Pierre Jaun Rivers . during the years 1805 1806 and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain . in the year 1807

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PIKE, Zebulon MontgomeryBiblio.com

Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi

1810rif. 68974Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad & Co. 1810. Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad & Co. 1810. Full Description: PIKE Zebulon Montgomery. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi. and through the Western Parts of Louisiana to the Sources of the Arkansaw Kans La Platte and Pierre Juan Rivers; Performed by the Order of the Government of the United States during the Years 1805 1806 and 1807. And a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain When Conducted through these Provinces by Order of the Captain-General in the Year 1807. Illustrated by Maps and Charts. Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad & Co. 1810. First edition of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest and one of the most important of all American travel narratives. Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 135 mm. 5 1 blank 1 1 blank 105 1 blank 9 Meteorological Observations 1 blank 107-277 3 blank 2 Meteorological Observations 65 1 53 1 blank 87 1 blank pp. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike by Edwin and with six engraved maps and charts five of which are folding and three folding letterpress tables. Full contemporary sheep. Spine with repairs along hinges and head and tail piece. Black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Boards with some minor rubbing and chipping. Some light foxing and toning throughout. The second letterpress chart with a two-inch closed tear at the margin but with no loss. Overall a very good copy and much better than usually found. This important expedition was made as part of a concerted effort by President Jefferson to explore the newly acquired territory west of the Mississippi. Leaving the St. Louis area in July 1806 Pike explored Kansas Oklahoma Northern Texas the Spanish settlements of New Mexico and Colorado until captured by the Spanish. Conducted through Santa Fé to Chihuahua he was returned through Texas to Louisiana. All of Pike's papers were confiscated but he managed to save his precious journals by secreting them amongst his men. When published in 1810 the narrative offered the first accurate description of the great Southwest. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on first hand exploration and are considered "milestones in the mapping of the American West" Wheat. Graff 3290. Howes P373 "First government exploration of the Southwest". Sabin 62936. Streeter 3125. Streeter Texas 1047. Wagner-Camp 9:1. Wheat Transmississippi West 297 298 and 299. HBS 68974. $13500. Published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co... unknown

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