EXCELLENT MAP OF TEXAS, NEW MEXICO & CHIHUAHUA
98. EDWARDS, Frank S. A Campaign in New Mexico
with Colonel Doniphan...With a Map of the Route, and a
Table of the Distances Traversed. London: James S.
Hodson, 1848. [2] iv, 134 [2 ads] pp., folding lithographed
map: Map Shewing Col. A. W. Doniphan’s Route
through the States of New Mexico, Chihuahua and
Coahuila (38.2 x 33 cm; 15 x 13 inches). 12mo, original
blind-stamped green cloth, gilt title on front cover.
Slightly rubbed, upper hinge split (but strong), one short
tear to lower blank margin of map. Contemporary engraved
armorial bookplate of George Anthony Legh Keck. Light
ex-library, with two small ink stamps on front
pastedown.
First
English edition (the U.S. edition came out the prior
year). Connor & Faulk, North America
Divided 432. Eberstadt 137:170: "Contains much
important material concerning General Houston and the
Western reaches of Texas." Garrett, The Mexican-American
War, pp. 146-47. Graff 1211. Haferkorn, p. 44. Howes
E52. Munk (Alliott), p. 81. Plains & Rockies
IV:132:2: "Wagner believed Edwards’ narrative to be
one of the most interesting accounts published about the
expedition." Raines, p. 75: "Doniphan’s march from
Santa Fe to Chihuahua...[is] one of the most memorable in
military history." Rittenhouse 184. Saunders 2874. Tutorow
3516: "Topics... include the author’s enlistment at
St. Louis, rendezvous of the army near Bent’s Fort,
recreation, Indian houses...the daily lives of soldiers,
various people encountered along the way, Bent’s
murder, Chihuahua orders from Taylor and Wool." Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi West 543 & III, p.
9n (citing the map in the U.S. edition, which is slightly
reworked in this edition): "[The map] covers the entire
route of the Colonel and his command from Independence and
Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, thence south down the Rio
Grande to Paso del Norte (the present Juarez, Mexico), west
of the Rio Grande to Chihuahua, and finally to the coast at
Brazos Santiago, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. The map
is an excellent representation of the region covered." The
attractive and important map shows all of Texas on a
generous scale. The Cross Timbers are shown as a swath of
miniature trees.
($400-800)