COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES: OR THE JOURNAL OF A SANTA FE TRADER, DURING EIGHT EXPEDITIONS ACROSS THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, AND A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY NINE YEARS IN NORTHERN MEXICO. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS.
New York: Henry G. Langley, 1845. Second edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 320; 318 pp. One map, and six plates, illustrations in text. This is the issue without the large folding map, the preface, the glossary, or index, and with the title page of volume two identical to the first edition [see Graff 1662 & Wagner Camp 108.4]. Original black cloth, gilt title on spines, damp staining to boards, and old tidelines to text. A good copy only. Early ownership signature and bookplate of James M. Anderson, Jr. in both volumes. Anderson saw service during the Civil War with the 30th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry. Item #59849
Clark, Travels in the South, III, 172: "Gregg spent much of his life traveling in the Southwest. From 1831 to 1839 he engaged in the Santa Fe trade, and out of the information gained in this experience he wrote [this] important work..."
WAGNER-CAMP 108.4 STREETER TEXAS 1502B GRAFF 1662 cf. HOWES G 401.
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