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Auction archive: Lot number 247

ABERT, James W. (1820-1897). Report of Lieut. J.W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-'47 . Pp. [418]-548. -- COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Report of Col. P. St. George Cooke of His March from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to S...

Auction 21.06.2005
21 Jun 2005
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,400
Auction archive: Lot number 247

ABERT, James W. (1820-1897). Report of Lieut. J.W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-'47 . Pp. [418]-548. -- COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Report of Col. P. St. George Cooke of His March from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to S...

Auction 21.06.2005
21 Jun 2005
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,400
Beschreibung:

ABERT, James W. (1820-1897). Report of Lieut. J.W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-'47 . Pp. [418]-548. -- COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Report of Col. P. St. George Cooke of His March from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to San Diego, Upper California . Pp. [549]-[563]. -- JOHNSTON, Abraham Robinson (ca 1815-1846). Journal of Captain A.R. Johnston, First Dragoons . Pp. [565]-614. Extracts from: EMORY, William. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance . 30th Congress, 1st Session. House Executive Document, no. 41. Serial 517. [Washington, D.C: Wendell and van Benthuysen, 1848]. Three parts in one, 8 o (225 x 142 mm). Abert: 24 lithographed plates and large folding map of the Territory of New Mexico (some occasional spotting); Cooke: folding map of the march and wagon road from Santa Fé to the Pacific Ocean by P.S. Duval; Johnston: 11 lithographed plates and 1 map. Contemporary speckled calf, brown morocco lettering piece (minor wear to extremities). Provenance : Howard Stansbury (1806-1863), soldier and explorer, surveyor of what became the Mad River and Lake Erie railroad, as well as the mouths of the Chagrin, Cumberland, and Vermilion rivers (inscription from the author's father). FIRST EDITIONS, House issue. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR'S FATHER on the first text leaf: "Howard Stansbury from Col. Abert Washington April 2. 18(?)." The present work was issued with the House issue of Emory's Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California , 1848 (see lot 245 for the Senate issue). Streeter notes that this first issue of the map without the name of the lithographer, as here, represents the first issue of the FIRST PRINTED MAP OF NEW MEXICO made public by the War Department (see Streeter I:168). A fine provenance: John W. Abert's father, John James Abert, was an army engineer who pressured Congress to form the Corps of Topographical Engineers and eventually became Commander of the Corps. Howard Stansbury received his orders to explore the Great Salt Lake from Abert in 1849. Stansbury was to march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Mormon country around the Great Salt Lake, to survey that area and return by a more southerly route. For the descriptions of the House issue of Emory's complete text, see: Cowan p. 195; Field 500; Howes E-145; Sabin 22536; Wagner-Camp-Becker 148:5; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 544.

Auction archive: Lot number 247
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

ABERT, James W. (1820-1897). Report of Lieut. J.W. Abert, of his Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-'47 . Pp. [418]-548. -- COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Report of Col. P. St. George Cooke of His March from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to San Diego, Upper California . Pp. [549]-[563]. -- JOHNSTON, Abraham Robinson (ca 1815-1846). Journal of Captain A.R. Johnston, First Dragoons . Pp. [565]-614. Extracts from: EMORY, William. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance . 30th Congress, 1st Session. House Executive Document, no. 41. Serial 517. [Washington, D.C: Wendell and van Benthuysen, 1848]. Three parts in one, 8 o (225 x 142 mm). Abert: 24 lithographed plates and large folding map of the Territory of New Mexico (some occasional spotting); Cooke: folding map of the march and wagon road from Santa Fé to the Pacific Ocean by P.S. Duval; Johnston: 11 lithographed plates and 1 map. Contemporary speckled calf, brown morocco lettering piece (minor wear to extremities). Provenance : Howard Stansbury (1806-1863), soldier and explorer, surveyor of what became the Mad River and Lake Erie railroad, as well as the mouths of the Chagrin, Cumberland, and Vermilion rivers (inscription from the author's father). FIRST EDITIONS, House issue. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR'S FATHER on the first text leaf: "Howard Stansbury from Col. Abert Washington April 2. 18(?)." The present work was issued with the House issue of Emory's Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California , 1848 (see lot 245 for the Senate issue). Streeter notes that this first issue of the map without the name of the lithographer, as here, represents the first issue of the FIRST PRINTED MAP OF NEW MEXICO made public by the War Department (see Streeter I:168). A fine provenance: John W. Abert's father, John James Abert, was an army engineer who pressured Congress to form the Corps of Topographical Engineers and eventually became Commander of the Corps. Howard Stansbury received his orders to explore the Great Salt Lake from Abert in 1849. Stansbury was to march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Mormon country around the Great Salt Lake, to survey that area and return by a more southerly route. For the descriptions of the House issue of Emory's complete text, see: Cowan p. 195; Field 500; Howes E-145; Sabin 22536; Wagner-Camp-Becker 148:5; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 544.

Auction archive: Lot number 247
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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