Bartlett, John Russell (1805-1886) Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihu

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Bartlett, John Russell (1805-1886) Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. New York: Appleton & Co., 1854. First edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated with a folding frontispiece, large folding map, General Map Showing the Counties Explored and Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission, thirty-four text woodcuts, and six full-page lithographs in volume one; a folding frontispiece, sixty text woodcuts, and eight full-page lithographs in volume two (with only one of the two plates of geysers called for at page 40, and the additional unlisted view of Tucson opposite page 292 present); bound in full contemporary publisher's dark green ribbed cloth, spines tooled with images of saguaro cacti, 9 1/8 x 6 in. (2)
Estimate $600-800


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