Fine Books and Manuscripts

Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers. Washington: Printed by Order of the United States' Senate, 1843. [2] 200 pages. 8vo, disbound, sheets sewn together with string, housed in archival box with tan buckram clamshell case, gilt-lettered spine label. First edition. With five (of six) plates. Light soiling; two small repaired tears to title page; scattered brown spots; lacking frontispiece map and original wrappers.