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House of Representatives Report only. Includes large folding map, 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; 1 map; 21 steel-engraved paleontological plates (4to) original cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First Edition.

Report on government explorations in the Southwest, noteworthy for the striking illustrations as well as the text, and with an important map. Wagner-Camp notes that "Emory's writing style and system of organization lacks the quality of John C. Fremont, but the scientific content of the Report is indeed comparable to Fremont's earlier Narrative, according to William H. Goetzmann. Although Emory had been a key member of the Commission ever since its beginning, his narrative of his own adventures is sketchy and inadequate, and reflects in it some of his animosity toward John Bartlett. Emory's own contribution to the Report is cartographic; as the Commission's chief astronomer, he had made most of the several thousand observations which were incorporated into the maps...." Volume 1 contains the maps and description of the country plus reports by James Hall on the Palaeontology and Geology and by T.A. Conrad in the fossils. Howes E146; Wagner-Camp 291; Wheat Transmississippi 916