2 volumes. [2], xxii, 506 + [6] ad; [2], xvii, [1], 624 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographed plates after Bartlett including folding frontispieces, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings; large folding map in Vol. I. (8vo), original green cloth, spines gilt lettered and decorated. First Edition.
Important first-hand account of the survey which laid down the southwestern border between the United States and Mexico following the conclusion of hostilities. Jenkins calls this work "the most scholarly and scientific description of southwest Texas of its era," although Graff points out that "a number of incidents described by Bartlett have been differently interpreted by his associates." This copy with both of the geyser plates listed and with the additional unlisted view of Tucson, in contradiction to Howes who delineates, "only one geyser pl, not two as listed, is found in v.2, that deficiency being made up by an unlisted view of Tucson". Howes also states that the frontispiece "belonging to v.2 was placed in v.1," which is not exactly the case, the frontispiece for the first volume is listed in the second, but correctly placed in Vol. I. Copies with both Geyser plates are rare. Cowan p.36; Graff 198; Howes B201; Jenkins 12; Rader 287; Sabin 3746; Wagner-Camp 234:1; Wheat Transmississippi 798.
Condition:
Bindings with some extremity wear, corners rubbed; archival repairs to map; occasional light foxing; very good to near fine, better than typically encountered.