First Edition of Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America

Em[manuel] Domenech. SEVEN YEARS' RESIDENCE IN THE GREAT DESERTS OF NORTH AMERICA. (2) vols. (complete). London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Full calf with gilt fillet, spine gilt-lettered and decorated with raised bands and red and green labels, with marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, stamp-signed by Jenkins & Cecil. 8vo; xxiv, [1]-445, [1]pp.; xii, [1]-465, [1]pp. With (58) plates including frontispieces, and a folding map. Howes 410; Sabin 20554.

Each 8 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.

A Private North Carolina Collection

Per Sabin, "Mostly a compilation from the 'Reports of the Surveys for the Pacific Railroad,' some of the plates in that work being here reproduced" (p. 477).

Sturdy boards with some indentations, scuffs, and spotting, a few subtle stains, rubbing to extremities, and a couple of corners gently bumped; clean interiors with light toning, scattered foxing (concentrated at endpapers), and occasional handling wear such as light creasing or corner fold; a few pages in vol. I with ghosting; the map with folds and a few tears, including one tear with partial tape repair, some areas of typical creasing, and a few spots of foxing at the margins. Very good.