PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi ... Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1810. 8 o text (212 x 131 mm) and atlas (267 x 215 mm). Frontispiece portrait in text volume (pale offsetting on title); atlas with three folding tables and six maps, five folding, one on two joined sheets (some pale offsetting and spotting, a few short tears). (Gathering 2E with soft crease at upper corners.) Text in contemporary tree sheep, spine gilt-ruled with red morocco lettering piece (some very light wear to extremities, lower joint cracked); atlas in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled (boards slightly rubbed). Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 798). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTHWEST. In 1806 Pike led an expedition to the southwestern borders of the Louisiana Purchase. He had orders to explore the Arkansas and Red rivers, and to obtain information about nearby Spanish territory. It was on this trip that he tried, unsuccessfully, to climb the mountain peak later named for him. His party headed south from Colorado, ending up in what is now northern New Mexico, where they were stopped by Spanish officials and charged with illegal entry into Spanish-held territory. All of Pike's maps, notes and papers became the property of the Spanish, with the party escorted through Santa Fe, across Texas and released on the Spanish-American border in Louisiana. Pike's published account of this last expedition, with information about the weakness of Spanish authority in Santa Fe, and the profitability of trading with Mexico, stirred businessmen and politicians into expanding to Texas. He also helped establish the myth of the "Great American Desert" which retarded growth into the Great Plains. Field 1217; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Sabin 62836; Streeter Texas 1047; Wagner-Camp-Becker 9:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 297-299. A FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING, THE PREFERRED ISSUE WITH THE MAPS AND TABLES IN A SEPARATE ATLAS VOLUME. (2)
PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi ... Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1810. 8 o text (212 x 131 mm) and atlas (267 x 215 mm). Frontispiece portrait in text volume (pale offsetting on title); atlas with three folding tables and six maps, five folding, one on two joined sheets (some pale offsetting and spotting, a few short tears). (Gathering 2E with soft crease at upper corners.) Text in contemporary tree sheep, spine gilt-ruled with red morocco lettering piece (some very light wear to extremities, lower joint cracked); atlas in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled (boards slightly rubbed). Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 798). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTHWEST. In 1806 Pike led an expedition to the southwestern borders of the Louisiana Purchase. He had orders to explore the Arkansas and Red rivers, and to obtain information about nearby Spanish territory. It was on this trip that he tried, unsuccessfully, to climb the mountain peak later named for him. His party headed south from Colorado, ending up in what is now northern New Mexico, where they were stopped by Spanish officials and charged with illegal entry into Spanish-held territory. All of Pike's maps, notes and papers became the property of the Spanish, with the party escorted through Santa Fe, across Texas and released on the Spanish-American border in Louisiana. Pike's published account of this last expedition, with information about the weakness of Spanish authority in Santa Fe, and the profitability of trading with Mexico, stirred businessmen and politicians into expanding to Texas. He also helped establish the myth of the "Great American Desert" which retarded growth into the Great Plains. Field 1217; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Sabin 62836; Streeter Texas 1047; Wagner-Camp-Becker 9:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 297-299. A FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING, THE PREFERRED ISSUE WITH THE MAPS AND TABLES IN A SEPARATE ATLAS VOLUME. (2)
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