Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. First edition. 2 volumes, text and atlas, 8vo. Text: 65 lithograph plates of views, fossils, and a folded hand-colored geologic profile. (Spotting throughout, light dampstain to top edge of first several leaves.) Atlas: 2 large folding maps. (Repairs along folds.) Original brown cloth (joints repaired). book-plate of H.K. Gloyd. Howes M-276; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:3; Wheat Transmississippi 791.

First edition, House of Representatives issue, of "Marcy's report [which] abounds in topographical and geographical detail" (Wagner-Camp). The larger of the two maps, Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico, shows Marcy’s route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe in 1849, and "was an attempt not only to bring together information obtained from his own explorations, but to show the relation of that country to the areas lying to the north and south and to the west as far as the Colorado River...one of the best maps of the period." (Wheat). The second smaller map shows the territory of the upper Red River explored in 1852.

Together with:
Message of the President of the United States, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 26, calling for a copy of the report and maps of Captain Marcy of his explorations of the Big Wichita and head waters of the Brazos rivers. Washington, D.C., n.p., 1856. 8vo. Inserted into new folding case.