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50 pages with folding maps. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in half leather over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine, housed in a custom enclosure. 33d Congress, 2d session. Inscribed by the author. Senate. Ex. doc. 55. First edition.Andrew Belcher Gray was an American surveyor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he studied engineering and surveying under Andrew Talcott, and surveyed the Mississippi Delta with him in 1839, before joining the Texas Navy as a midshipman. Remaining in the Republic of Texas, he was appointed a surveyor for the Texas-U.S. boundary commission led by Memucan Hunt. In 1844–1846, he served as U.S. government mineral surveyor, mapping the rich copper country of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan and leasing out the government's mineral lands.
He returned to the new state of Texas during the Mexican–American War. Following the war, he served as chief surveyor of the US–Mexican commission which established the border after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. When the U.… Read More
