02458cam a2200361 4500 rc 01000181 DLC 20260227111859.0 cr ||||||||||| 821207s1848 dcuabcf 000 0deng rc 01000181 DLC DLC DLC n-us--- F786 .U57 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. By W.H. Emory, brevet major, Corps Topographical Engineers. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the West." Notes of a military reconnaissance Washington, Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers, 1848. 416 p. plates. 23 cm. 30th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Executive [document] ; no. 7 According to Wagner-Camp, illustrations include "26 plates of scenery and portraits, 3 plans, 14 plates of botany. Map in pocket ...: Military reconnaissance of the Arkansas; Rio del Norte and Rio Gila ..." Another edition, of same date, with folded map (ordered printed December 16, 1847) is found in the Congressional series of public documents (Serial no. 505). Wagner-Camp, item 148 LC Copy 1 has ink stamp: Smithsonian Institution. Incomplete: folded map wanting. DLC LC Copy 2 has leaf tipped in with inscription, "This book was in possession of General Lyon and left by him at one of the posts on the frunteer and found by me at this post, Fort Lyon. [Signed] Ed Palmer. Boath of these volumes you will have the kindness to place in the library of the Institute." Has ink stamp: Smithsonian Institution. Incomplete: six plates and folded map wanting. DLC LC Copy 3 incomplete: one plate and folded map wanting. Gift: Estate of William C. Rives, Apr. 1940. DLC Also available in digital form from the Library of Congress Web site. Southwest, New Description and travel. United States Discovery and exploration. Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887. Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 30th Congress, 1st session, no. 7. gcesp 0010 s http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gcesp.0010 51744 51744