[Rarebooks] FS: Engelmann's Report on CACTACAE from Emory's U.S. & Mexican Boundary Survey, 1859

[Charles Agvent]

ENGELMANN, George. CACTACAE OF THE BOUNDARY from UNITED STATES AND
MEXICAN  BOUNDARY  SURVEY UNDER THE ORDER OF LIETU. COL. W. H.  EMORY.
[Washington]:  [Government  Printing  Office] [1859].  First  Edition.
Quarto  (8-1/2"  x  10-7/8")  in a black  faux-morocco  album  folder.
Issued  a the first part of the second volume of Emory's UNITED STATES
AND  MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, this is the preferred second issue  with
the  six pages of corrections at the end and is complete with 78 pages
of  text and 76 steel-engraved plates of cacti including the important
"View  Along the Gila." Engelmann was the great American authority  on
cacti,  and many of these engravings are the finest ever made of these
plants.  Mostly light and scattered foxing. A dampstain, mostly  quite
faint,  affects  a dozen or so plates at the bottom portion,  but  for
the  most part the effect is negligible. The last two plates, both  of
seeds,  have creases with the final plate the worst having a tear with
no loss. Overall Very Good and quite uncommon.                $1000.00

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