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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. (4to), 28x222 cm. (11x8½"), later blue library cloth. House Issue. 34th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 135.

Report on government explorations in the Southwest, noteworthy for the striking illustrations as well as the text. 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. Howes E146; Wagner-Camp 291; Wheat Transmississippi 916.