JAMES, Edwin

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes - Image 2
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes - Image 3
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes - Image 4

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Publisher: Longmans

Year: 1823

Edition: First

Format: Hardcover

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James was botanist and geologist on the Rocky Mountains  Expedition.  4 aquatint plates (of 8) bound in and one folding table (vertical section of the latitudes of the mountains bound in to rear of  volume 3). Ex library copy., with samps throughout (including to plates). Well read, with handling marks particularly to volume 1. Now rebound in modern blue buckram with paper spine labels .  Lacks the large folding map. vii, [1], 344; vii, [1], 356; vii, [1], 347pp. A Good set, lacking the maps and with some missing plates. Spine labels lifting. WAF. Scarce.

[HAMILTON, Thomas, Earl of Haddington]
A Treatise on the The Manner of Raising Forest Trees, &c. In a Letter from the Right Honourable, The Earl of — to his Grandson. To which are added, Two Memoirs; the one on Preserving and Repairing FORESTS; The other on the Culture of FORESTS. —- Both translated from the FRENCH of M. DE BUFFON of the Royal Academy at Paris.

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Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to The Rocky Mountains, Performed In the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers: Compiled From The Notes of Major Long . In Three Volumes
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