Simpson James Hervey (1813-1883) Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe New Mexico to the Navajo Country Authors Prese

Simpson, James Hervey (1813-1883) Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Navajo Country, Author's Presentation Copy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1852. First edition, signed presentation dated July 1852 on ffep, octavo, illustrated with large folding map and seventy-five lithographs, many in color, bound in unrestored publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth; bottom two-thirds of flyleaf with inscription trimmed away and lacking, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Provenance: The Estate of David Spinney.