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Lot 33
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$260
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[Americana] Johnston J.E., et al. Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso
U.S. Senate Report Ex. Doc. No. 64, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Union Office, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 72 duotone and chromolithograph plates, two folding, and two folding maps. Modern calf antique. Maps strengthened with tissue, folding plates with scattered repairs to folds. Field 1289; Graff 2228; Howes J-170; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, 111; Raines, p.128; Sabin 36377; Wagner-Camp 184.
First edition of this "valuable compendium of reports of government explorations that led to the opening of West Texas to travel and settlement" (Jenkins).
This lot is located in Chicago.