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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE GREGG, JOSIAH. Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions Across the Great
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE GREGG, JOSIAH. Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western Prairies. 6 plates, 2 maps (including one folding). 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, worn at corners and at head and tail of backstrip; browned at sheet edges, scattered foxing, the folding map in excellent condition; early owner's signatures on the front free endpaper and on verso of the frontispiece. New York, 1844
- Notes: first edition, first issue without the London imprint in volume one. "Commerce of the Prairies is regarded as one of the classic accounts of the trans-Mississippi West and particularly, as 'a cornerstone of Santa Fe Trail studies,' according to bibliographer Jack Rittenhouse. Wheat calls its map 'a cartographic landmark... an outstanding achievement'"--Wagner-Camp 108:1; Howes G401; Graff 1659; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississipi West 482.
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