250 pp. With 72 lithographed plates, 27 of them in color, 3 of three of them folding, 2 folding lithographed maps. (8vo) rebound in red half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt (with Johnston misspelled as Johnson). The maps and the folding plates are housed in a matching morocco-backed box. First Edition.

Important reconnaissance in Texas, with striking plates of the land explored, the natives encountered, rock inscriptions, etc., a number printed in color, an early use of color lithography. Jenkins remarks that the work is a "valuable compendium of reports of government explorations that led to the opening of West Texas to travel and settlement..." The plates are numbered 1-75, but there were no plate numbers 2, 21, or 39 issued. The two maps are "Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio de Bexar, El Paso del Norte, &c. &c...." and "Map of the Route pursued in 1849 by the U.S. Troops, under the command of Bvt. Lieut. Col. Jno. M. Washington..." Graff 2228; Howes J120; Jenkins 111; Raines p.128; Sabin 36377; Wagner-Camp 184; Wheat Transmississippi 677.