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Commerce of the prairies, or, The journal of a Santa Fé trader : during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico : illustrated with maps and engravings / by Josiah Gregg ; in two volumes

Catalog Data

Author:
Gregg, Josiah 1806-1850  Search this
Engraver:
Dick, Archibald L. approximately 1805-approximately 1855  Search this
Didier, E.  Search this
Lossing, Benson John 1813-1891  Search this
Subject:
Gregg, Josiah 1806-1850 Travel  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [8] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm
Type:
Sources
Place:
West (U. S.)
West (U.S.)
New Mexico
Southwest, New
Mexico
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Date:
1844
Notes:
"S.W. Benedict & Co., stereotypers and printers"--Verso of t.p.
Vol. 1: 320 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: 318 p., [4] leaves of plates.
Frontispieces in both volumes engraved by A.L. Dick; other plates signed: Lossing, sc.
Checklist Amer. imprints, 44-2803
Wagner-Camp (4th ed.), 108:1
SCNHRB copy (39088016462665, 39088016462707) stamped in red on t.p.s: Bureau of Ethnology Library 1894 [acc. no.] 3824-5.
SCNHRB copy has occasional pencilled ms. notes and markings.
SCNHRB copy bound in old red library buckram, marbled edges and endpapers, title in gilt on spine.
Topic:
Indians of North America--History  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
F800 .G83 1844
F786.G81X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_260869