Description:
Johnston, Joseph E. (1807-1891) et alia. Reports of the Secretary of War with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso. Washington, D.C.: at the Union Office, 1850. First edition, octavo, illustrated with seventy-two lithographs (twenty-seven in color, three folding),two folding maps; bound in publisher's brown cloth, rebacked, staining, spotting, tears to maps, contemporary inscription of George Fyfe, on ffep dated 1851, 9 x 5 1/4 in.
Provenance: The Estate of David Spinney.
Estimate $400-600
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