Fremont, J. C. (John C. Fremont): A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers

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Fremont, J. C. (John C. Fremont) : A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers

Printed by Order of the United States' Senate, Washington, D.C., 1843

Brown marbled boards backed with brown leather. 6" x 9 1/4." 207 pages, complete. Map and illustrations in facsimile: one black-and-white folding map and six plates, complete. Numbers "551; 60" on spine. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Class 551, No. 60; Union College Library; Bound by the Asa Packer Memorial Fund." Printed facsimile title label on spine. Pages very clean and intact except for slight foxing and age toning. Covers are intact overall but have a moderate amount of rubbing and multiple scratch marks. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. Referenced in Wagner-Camp as no. 95: "[1]-13 in eights; consisting of: [1] letter of transmittal, [2] blank, leaf (front.), [3] title, [4] blank, [5] contents, [6] blank, fold. map, [7]-207, [208] blank. ... Fremont's first expedition to the Rockies was designed by his father-in-law, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, to publicize the overland route to Oregon. Dale Morgan found the manuscript of the report in the War Department records of the National Archives. Although unable to locate any of Fremont's manuscript journals, Morgan found the financial records of the 1842-45 expeditions in the old files of the General Accounting Office." The letter of transmittal preceding the title page has the following title: "27th Congress, 3d Session. [Senate.] [243] Report from the Secretary of War, Communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a copy of Lieut. Fremont's report of his Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. March 2, 1843. Read, and ordered to be printed. March 3, 1843. Ordered, That nine hundred additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate, and one hundred copies for the use of the Topographical Bureau." Within the letter of transmittal, J. J. Abert, Colonel Corps of Topographical Engineers, writes, "I have the honor to transmit the report and map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, made during the last summer, under the orders of the Department, by Lieut. J. C. Fremont, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and which was called for by a resolution of the Senate of the 21st of last December. Although so much time has elapsed since the calling for the report, allow me to say that it was not owing to any want of industry on the part of Lieut. Fremont, but to the great amount of matter which had to be introduced in the report, and the many calculations which had to be made of the astronomical and barometrical observations. The necessary labor on these accounts has delayed the completion of the report until to-day." Secretary of War named as J. C. Spencer.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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