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Title: Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey... Volume I Author: Emory, William H Place: Washington Publisher: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer Date: 1857 Description: Volume One (two parts) only. xvi, 258; viii, 174 pp. Illustrated 3 maps (two folding, one partially hand-colored) with 9 steel-engraved plates of views (1 of which, "View of Monument Mountain" is not listed); 12 color lithographs of Indians or views; 33 plates with 66 engraved outline sketches; 1 folding profile; 1 folding chart; 21 steel-engraved paleontological plates. 11¼x8, library cloth. First Edition, First Issue. The large folding maps present in this volume are "Map of the United States and Their Territories Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean and Part of Mexico Compiled from Surveys Made Under the Order of W.H. Emory." and "Map illustrating the General Geological Features of the Country West of the Mississippi River...compiled by the surveys of W.H. Emory and from the Pacific Railway Surveys...by James Hall " with distribution of rocks hand-colored. This copy Howes E146; Wagner-Camp 291; Wheat Transmississippi 916 - House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 135, 34th Congress, 1st Session. Lot Amendments Condition: Scattered minor offsetting (including frontispiece to title); "Lipan Warrior" plate foxed, a couple plates spotted, scattered isolated spots, geologic map with minor creasing and a repaired stub tear; near fine. Item number: 157530