[Rarebooks] FS: 1st pub. report of the 1850 Boundary Commission between the U.S. and Mexico

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEXICO) Salazar Ylarregui, Jose. DATOS DE LOS TRABAJOS ASTRONOMICOS Y TOPOGRAFICOS, DISPUESTOS EN FORMA DE DIARIO. Practicados Durante el Ano de 1849 y Principios de 1850 por la Comision de Limites Mexicana en la Linea Que Divide Esta Republica de la de los Estados-Unidos, por el Geometra de Dicha Comision. Edicion de la Civilizacion. Mexico: Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro. 1850. 8vo. 123,(1)pp. Illustrated with 2 folding maps; the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers (the Eastern terminus) and the Tia Juana Valley (the western terminus). Orig. gilt decorated mottled sheep, brown calf spine label (mostly lacking). Fore-edge margin of one map has some small (1/8") marginal tears.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the earliest detailed account of the previously unsurveyed border between Mexico and California & central Arizona, after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It precedes the report issued by the "much better equipped" United States surveyors. Wagner-Camp 190. Howes S47. Sabin 75598. Palau 286944.  See the Reese copy, the only other copy currently available, for some interesting notes.

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