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2 volumes. [2], xxii, 506; xvii, [1 blank], 624 pp. Illustrated with 13 (of 16) lithographed plates after Bartlett including folding frontispieces; numerous wood engravings; large folding map in Vol. I. 9x5½, later cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels.

Important first-hand account of the survey which laid down the southwestern border between the United States and Mexico following the conclusion of hostilities. Although Howes says that the frontispiece "belonging to v.2 was placed in v.1," it is not the case here as the frontispiece for the first volume is listed in the second, but correctly placed in Vol. I. Cowan p.36; Graff 198; Howes B201; Jenkins 12; Rader 287; Sabin 3746; Wagner-Camp 234:1; Wheat Transmississippi 798.