Lot 223
  • 223

Gregg, Josiah

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844.
  • paper, ink
2 volumes. 12mo (73/8 x 41/2 in.; 187 x 114 mm). Folding map and 6 plates; mild foxing, closed tear to edge of folding map. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; some fraying to ends, gilt rubbed.

first edition, first issue of "one of the classics of bedrock Americana" (Dobie).

Literature

Graff/Storm 1659; Howes G401; Sabin 28712; Streeter sale 1:378; Streeter Texas 1502; Wagner-Camp-Becker 108:1; Wheat 482