103. EMORY, William H. Report on the United
States and Mexican Boundary Survey.... Austin: Texas
State Historical Association, 1987. xxx, 1,022 pp. 4to, 3
vols., blue cloth in publisher’s slipcase. New as
issued. Over 300 plates and illustrations (37 in color),
maps, charts. New, as issued.
Limited
edition (750 copies); a facsimile of the original
edition published in Washington, 1857-1859, with a splendid
comprehensive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian William H. Goetzmann. Field 500. Howes E146.
Basic Texas Books 57. Plains & Rockies
IV:291. Raines, p. 76. "Emory’s Report was perhaps the
most complete scientific description ever made of the
lands, the people, and the border country...[It] recalls
the whole incredible history of the United States-Mexican
Boundary Survey" (Goetzmann).
($150-250)