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Willard, Emma : Last Leaves of American History: Comprising a Separate History of California

A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1853

Original publisher's red cloth binding with lightly impressed decorations on covers. Gilt lettering on the spine. 5" x 7 1/2." 277 pages, complete. One color frontispiece depicting a map of the United States, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages have light foxing. The gilt lettering on the spine is very faded. There is wear at the corners, edges, and head and tail of spine. Slight splitting along the top and bottom of the joints. Covers have a few marks on them. A Very Good copy. A collection of histories in the United States from the author's perspective during the mid-nineteenth century. Original printed annotations are printed in the margins. Excerpt from the Preface: "The account of the Mexican war, herein contained, is taken from the author's history of 'The Republic of America;' but that of California is not in any other work. Of the part which follows, a portion is taken from 'The Republic,' and the remainder is prepared expressly for this book." The following are some of the topics addressed in this book: "Tyler's Administration," "Anti-Rentism," "Texas--Mexico--Causes of Annexation and the Mexican War," "Battle of Buena Vista," "Conquest of New Mexico and California," "Scott's Invasion," "Discovery and Settlement of Old and New California," "The Spanish System of Treatment to the Indians," "Account of Upper California--Its Presidios, Missions, &c., in 1822," "Lewis and Clarke's Expedition in the Years 1803-4-5--Fremont's Exploration to the South Pass, 1842," "Commodore Stockton's Movements," "Col. Fremont Made Governor," "The Gold Mines," "Taylor's Inauguration," "Meeting of Southern Delegates," "Separate Passage of the Compromise Measures," "First Cuban Expedition in 1850," "Remains of the Slavery Agitation," "Sandwich Islands," "Remarkable State of the Political Relations Between Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster," and "Changes in the Immediate Past of Europe and America, Bearing upon the Future of the American Republic." Emma Willard (1787-1870) was a cartographer, women's rights activist, and educator. From an early age, Willard had a prowess for learning, academics, and teaching. Among Willard's major accomplishments was her founding of the first school for women's higher education, Troy Female Seminary, in 1821. Willard's school gave women opportunities to learn academic subjects that were typically reserved for men at the time, such as geography, history, philosophy, mathematics, and science. Troy Female Seminary is still open to this day in Troy, New York as the Emma Willard School (or simply, Emma) as a reputable and prestigious private school. Willard is also notable for being the first woman cartographer in the United States who worked in a professional capacity. Willard's approach to cartography was innovative in that she viewed mapmaking as a way to represent the relationship between historical events and philosophical concepts such as space, time, and memory.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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