Item #22665 Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition. Edwin James.
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin Thomas, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823.

Hardcover. Very good. First British edition, bound in original brown paper-covered boards, re-backed with plain paper spines. Each volume in a separate cloth chemise, the three volumes together housed in a cloth slipcase with marbled paper spine label. Complete with very good folding map, nine plates (three colored, one folding), half-titles in Volumes II and III. Private library stamp of Lewis W. Macnaughton on each front free endpaper, some foxing to endpapers, otherwise very clean. This important government-sponsored expedition, led by Major Stephen Harriman Long of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, was tasked with conducting a military and scientific reconnaissance of the central plains for the first time. The part included men with training in geology, botany, zoology, and ethnology, as well as a naturalist, an artist, and a topographer. Eight guides and hunters and a seven-man military escort completed the twenty-two man detachment. Edwin James served as botanist, geologist, and surgeon. According to Wagner-Camp (25:2), he based his account on "his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say" (the expedition's zoologist). Field (948) notes that "in all of Major Long's explorations, the natives of the territories through which he passed received the largest share of his attention...A great part of Volume III is devoted to observations upon the Shienne, Arapaho, Pawnee, and other tribes of the Plains. Of the eight plates, seven are illustrative of Indian life and manners." Wheat, Transmississppi, 353 (noting that the map was one of the "progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Transmississippi West"); Sabin 36583; Streeter Sale 1784; Howes H-41.

Item #22665

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