Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior (Volume 1: Parts 1 & 2)

Washington, D.C: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. First edition. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good-Small chips to head and bottom of spine and corners of boards. Hinges are tender but intact Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Original cloth stamped in blind, spines gilt, 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Uncommon & important volume detailing the Texas/Mexican border country in the 1850s. Volume 1 only (of 2) containting Parts 1 & 2 of the survey prepared for the 34th Congress, 1st Sess. Part 1: the General Survey Report at 258 plages + 54 plates (several of them hand-colored lithos), 1 foldout map & numerous in-text illustrations. Part 2: Geological Reports of C. C. Parry and A. Schlott, Notes by W. H. Emory, Paleontology and Geology by James Hall, Description of Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils by J. A. Conrad at 174 pages + 21 plates + numerous intext illustrations. Brown boards with embossed designs. The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848-1855) set the boundary between the United States and Mexico according to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War. The results of the survey were published in this Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory, a highly skilled American Army officer, topographer and geologist; Emory (1811-1887) made many notable geographical and geological studies of the American southwest. Besides documenting the new political boundary, the survey report was notable for its natural history content, including paleontology, botany, icthhylogy, ornithology, and mammalogy. The hand-colored lithographs of scenery and ethnography are notable as historical records of that period. Shipping will be extra because of the heavy weight (approx. 10 lbs).