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Auction archive: Lot number 80

KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867) Narrative of the Texan S...

Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$4,375
Auction archive: Lot number 80

KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867) Narrative of the Texan S...

Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$4,375
Beschreibung:

KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fi Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844.
KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fi Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Detailed folding map showing the route of the ill-fated expedition (425 x 300 mm), 5 full-page engraved plates (minor foxing). Original publisher's blindstamped black cloth, gilt pictorial stamp (a horseman chasing a buffalo) on spines; gray cloth folding box. Provenance : Frank L. Hadley (bookplate); Jay T. Snider (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 21 June 2005, lot 229). FIRST EDITION. A dramatic account (by a New Orleans journalist who accompanied the expedition) of an ill-conceived 1841 trek across the Southwest instigated by Texas President Mirabeau Lamar in an attempt to extend Texas's boundary westward to the Rio Grande and--in effect--annex New Mexico. After severe tribulations, the survivors were arrested by Governor Manuel Armijo and marched to Mexico City, provoking a public outcry and diplomatic crisis in Texas and the U.S. Most of the Texans were released six months later. For an augmented English edition, see lot 242. Field 818; Graff 2304; Howes K-75; Sabin 37360 ( "A romantic narrative of adventure, describing the terrible disasters which befell the expedition from the attacks of the hostile Indians"); Streeter I:379; Streeter Texas 1515; Wagner-Camp-Becker 110:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 483. A VERY FINE COPY, with spines exceptionally bright.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
3 December 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fi Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844.
KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fi Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Detailed folding map showing the route of the ill-fated expedition (425 x 300 mm), 5 full-page engraved plates (minor foxing). Original publisher's blindstamped black cloth, gilt pictorial stamp (a horseman chasing a buffalo) on spines; gray cloth folding box. Provenance : Frank L. Hadley (bookplate); Jay T. Snider (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 21 June 2005, lot 229). FIRST EDITION. A dramatic account (by a New Orleans journalist who accompanied the expedition) of an ill-conceived 1841 trek across the Southwest instigated by Texas President Mirabeau Lamar in an attempt to extend Texas's boundary westward to the Rio Grande and--in effect--annex New Mexico. After severe tribulations, the survivors were arrested by Governor Manuel Armijo and marched to Mexico City, provoking a public outcry and diplomatic crisis in Texas and the U.S. Most of the Texans were released six months later. For an augmented English edition, see lot 242. Field 818; Graff 2304; Howes K-75; Sabin 37360 ( "A romantic narrative of adventure, describing the terrible disasters which befell the expedition from the attacks of the hostile Indians"); Streeter I:379; Streeter Texas 1515; Wagner-Camp-Becker 110:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 483. A VERY FINE COPY, with spines exceptionally bright.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
3 December 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
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