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Auction archive: Lot number 111

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$180
Auction archive: Lot number 111

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$180
Beschreibung:

Title: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852 Author: Marcy, Randolph B. with George B. McClellan Place: Washington Publisher: A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer Date: 1854 Description: xv, [1], 286 pp. + plates. Illustrated with many lithographed plates including views, geological sections (1 hand-colored and folding), paleontology, zoology and botany plates. (8vo), original blind-stamped brown cloth. Second Edition, House Issue. First published the prior year. This copy without the two accompanying maps, often found in a separate folder. Important explorations of previously unknown areas of present-day Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arkansas by one of the major figures in the reconnaissance and settlement of the frontier. "Contains authentic information regarding the peculiar customs of the Indians of the southern plains. Their mode of warfare, their invariable violation of the chastity of female prisoners, and the condition of their dwellings and villages, are particularly described" (Sabin). Wagner-Camp adds that "Marcy's report abounds in topographical and geographical detail." Graff 2675; Howes M276; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:3. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends worn, remnants of bookplate on front pastedown; price sticker on title page verso, light foxing; very good. Item number: 242862

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
16 Jan 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852 Author: Marcy, Randolph B. with George B. McClellan Place: Washington Publisher: A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer Date: 1854 Description: xv, [1], 286 pp. + plates. Illustrated with many lithographed plates including views, geological sections (1 hand-colored and folding), paleontology, zoology and botany plates. (8vo), original blind-stamped brown cloth. Second Edition, House Issue. First published the prior year. This copy without the two accompanying maps, often found in a separate folder. Important explorations of previously unknown areas of present-day Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arkansas by one of the major figures in the reconnaissance and settlement of the frontier. "Contains authentic information regarding the peculiar customs of the Indians of the southern plains. Their mode of warfare, their invariable violation of the chastity of female prisoners, and the condition of their dwellings and villages, are particularly described" (Sabin). Wagner-Camp adds that "Marcy's report abounds in topographical and geographical detail." Graff 2675; Howes M276; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:3. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends worn, remnants of bookplate on front pastedown; price sticker on title page verso, light foxing; very good. Item number: 242862

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
16 Jan 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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