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Condizione: Good. Dark blue clothbound hardcover, blind-stamped with an illustration of a soldier to the front cover and spine, with gilt titling which remains clear and bright. There is wear to the edges and corners, as well as along the spine, consistent with age and use. The binding remains intact and acceptable, though the volume has been well read and is not as tight as when new. Internally, all pages are present and generally clear, with no foxing observed and only a slight degree of page toning. Disclaimer: Postage rates may be subject to change depending on the weight of the books. For the heavier and/ or multivolume sets, the cost will be determined using the prices displayed below. UK: £7 per kg EU: £10 per kg USA: £12 per kg If you have any queries, please get in touch.

Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), gilt blue cloth. 50pp. [565-614]. Bookplate of Edwin Stanton Fickes on front pastedown. CONDITION: Good ex-library; residual mark from library sticker on front cover, library stamp and call-number on ffep. An account by the first casualty on the California front of the Mexican American War, Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, dating from Sept. 24to Dec. 4th 1846. Excerpted from Emory's Notes of a Military Reconnaissance (1848), it narrates the American Army of the West's passage along the Gila Trail. This volume comprises an extract of ajournal kept byJohnston from June 30, 1846 to December 4, 1846, ending two days before his untimely death at the battle of San Pasqual. Included here are the presumably more interesting entries from Johnston's diary, providing detailed descriptions of the vegetation, topography, and peoples along the trail against a "dutifully described" backdrop of a military march through inhospitable territory (Wright). Robinson pays special attention to the geology of the terrain, describing in detail the volcanic and seismic activity he observes whilst providing drawings of rock-formations and far-off mountain ranges, making the journal more akin to a travelog than a military report proper. Also attending to the nearby Navajo and Apache tribes, Johnston often commends their buildings and dances while noting that they have begun to take on American-settler activities, such as rearing and trading livestock, and converting to Catholicism. Interestingly, Johnston is often sympathetic to the plight of the Indigenous people, it being a result of political circumstance rather than personal choice, despite being quite condescending with respect to the supposed "cowardice" (Wright) of Mexicans and Californians. Abraham Robinson Johnston (18151846) was captain of the American Army of the West's division of the First Dragoons, the first cavalry unit of the Regular army since 1815. After graduating from West Point, he was deployed to Fort Leavenworth, Missouri. In 1842, Johnston joined Brigadier General Kearny's army, which secured the territory of New Mexico without spilling a drop of blood. Settling in Santa Fe, by late June, 1846, Johnston, as a member ofthe Army of the West, embarked on a grueling six-month long expedition on the Gila Trail to secure the territory of California. On the night of December 4th, the Army encountered a party of some eighty Californios encamped near San Diego, at San Pasqual. Johnston's biographer Steven Wright recounts, "the army easily could have bypassed their opponents, but having completed the longest march in US Army history, the troops were eager to fight. In the pre-dawn hours of December 6, 1846, the cold, wet, ragged force of 160 men commenced the seven-mile march toward San Pasqual. As the Americans reached the crest of a hill and with a mile to go, General Kearny issued a final order: 'One point of the saber,' Kearny reminded his men, 'was worth any number of thrusts.' When the army reached the valley floor, Kearny issued the order to trot. Although three-quarters of a mile from the enemy's encampment, Captain Johnston, who had been selected to lead the mounted column's forward edge, misheard the command. In his eagerness to attack, he extended his saber, yelled "Charge!" and took off at a gallop, promptly becoming the unit's first casualty" (Wright). REFERENCES: Steven L. Wright, "'Your Affectionate Son, Robinson': American Expansionism and the Life of Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, 18151846," in The Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 52, Nos. 12 (2005).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., 614 pp., illustrated with 64 engraved plates and Two large folding maps attached: "Map of Territory of New Mexico" by Kearney's Report ("under instruction from Emory") 1846-47 and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean 1846-47"by Cooke's Report. Laid in, is a very large (7 foot long) map, titled: "Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas, Rio Del Norte and Rio Gila. by W. H. Emory". Bound in the original brown cloth with paper title label on the spine. A very clean copy, with plates vibrant, with rich blacks and no spotting or soiling. Maps are also very clean, with very little (if any) breaks along the folds. Lower front tip bumped. Some browning to the paste downs. A Superior copy. Howes E-145. Thirtieth Congress- First Session. Ex. Doc. No. 41. Includes the reports of J.W. Abert and Philip St. George Cooke. Together they summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. This work is considered one of the important chronicles and descriptions of the historic Southwest.

Full Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. House of Representatives Edition which proceeds the Senate edition. Title page mistakenly lists Emory as "Lieut. Col.". Original dark brown cloth with paper label title "New Mexico, and California, by Emory, Abert, Cooke, and Johnston". Contains some scuffs and nicks. Right spine edge is loose. Pages are age-toned and stiff with a few foxed. Includes wonderful pen and ink drawings in fine condition. Two fold out maps and three maps of battles in California with the Mexicans. Large fold-out map with 5" tear from inner margin affecting the map, "The Territory of New Mexico, 1846-47"; 67 plates. Page 454 misprinted as 754. 614pp. Overall GOOD minus condition. Extreemely scarce first edition. Damp staining to bottom corner throughout. Previous owner's notes on first page from 1929. Includes the reports of J.W. Abert and Philip St. George Cooke. Together they summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. The first folding map is Philip St. George Cooke's "Sketch of Part of the march & Wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7." This shows the route of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to the Gila River. The other, "Map of the Territory of New Mexico," was compiled by Lieutenants Abert and Peck after the conquest of New Mexico. Both are important contributions to western cartography. Abert's report includes material on the Indians of New Mexico and their languages. The Abert report also includes all of his views of New Mexico, the best group of early New Mexico views published. Wagner-Camp is in error in its collation of this edition, mistakenly calling for only forty plates, plus those of the Abert report. William Hemsley Emory (September 7, 1811 -- December 1, 1887) was an United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas. Emory was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, on his family's "Poplar Grove" estate. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated in 1831. Assigned as a second lieutenant, he served in the Corps of Engineers until he resigned from the service in 1836 to pursue civil engineering, but he returned to the service in 1838.During that same year, he married a great-grandaughter of Benjamin Franklin, Matilda Wilkins Bache of Philadelphia. The couple would have three children. During his second stint in the army, he was successively promoted from lieutenant to captain and finally to major. He specialized in mapping the United States border, including the Texas-Mexico border, the United States-Canadian border(18441866) and the Gadsen Purchase (1854 -- 1857). In 1844, Emory served in an expedition that produced a new map of Texan claims westward to the Rio Grande River. He came to public attention as the author of the Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, California, published by the Thirtieth United States Congress in 1848. This report described terrain and rivers, cities and forts and made observations about Indians, Mexicans, primarily in New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory and Southern California. It was and is considered one of the important chronicles and descriptions of the historic Southwest, particularly noted for its maps. Emory was a reliable and conscientous cartographer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.