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Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and

Creator:
James, Edwin, 1797-1861, compiler
Published / Created:
1822-1823.
Call Number:
Zc20 +822ja
Image Count:
41
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Spine title, on publisher's printed labels: Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains., Engravings by Young & Delleker, Cephas Grien Childs, Alexander Lawson, Francis Kearney, and William Hay; after Stephen H. Long, Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale., Some maps on double leaves., Text and atlas in slipcase., BEIN: Bookplate of Joseph Y. Jeanes., GEO: Atlas wanting, no slipcase., and BAC: British Art Center copy complete with atlas. Bound in publisher's original tan boards. Inscribed: Maine Charity School from Mrs. Lord.
Publisher:
H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chesnut St.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Ohio River, Missouri River, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Languages, Geology, Discoveries in geography, and Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party

2.
La historia general delas Indias, con todos los descubrimientos, y cosas notables que han acaescido

Creator:
López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564
Published / Created:
año. M.D.LIIII.
Call Number:
Pequot G59
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN Pequot G59: Signatures: A-B8 A-Nn8 (Nn8 [blank?] wanting)., Errors in numbering: leaves 5, 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 41-48 numbered, respectively, 6, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 28-35., "Impresso en Aquers por Iuan Lacio M.D.L.IIII" (at end of 16th prelim. leaf)., Printer's mark on t.p., The "traca delas Indias" entitled "Brevis exactaq. totius Novi orbis eiusq. insula "un descriptio recens a Ioan. Bellero edita" is present in the present copy. According to Sabin "only found in the Bellero editions and also in his edition of Levinus Appollonius of 1565 and 1567"; it is, however, found also in copies with imprint of Iuan Steelsio--cf. Cat. of Huth lib., & Medina, Bibl. hisp.-amer., Reprint of the first part of the author's Historia general de las Indias, Saragossa, 1553., and Another issue has the imprint: En Anuers, Iuan Bellero, 1554.
Publisher:
En casa de Iuan Steelsio
Subject (Geographic):
America, Latin America, and Peru
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La historia general delas Indias, con todos los descubrimientos, y cosas notables que han acaescido enellas, dende que se ganaren hasta agora, escrita por Francisco Lopez de Gomara, clerigo : Anadiose de nueuo la descripcion y traca delas Indias, con vna tabla alphabetica delas prouincias, islas, puereos [!] ciudades, y nombres de onquistadores y varones principales que alla han passado..

3.
Message from the president of the United States : in compliance with a resolution of the Senate

Published / Created:
1846?]
Call Number:
Zc20 846un 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN: Copy 2 was James W. Abert's personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians attributed to James W. Abert, which were never published., BEIN: Copy 3 has colored plates., MUDD: Egi Ar48 845: folded leaf and map missing., Caption title., At head of caption title: 29th Congress, 1st Session, [Senate.], [438]., and Map entitled: Map showing the route pursued by the exploring expedition to New Mexico and the southern Rocky Mountains made under the orders of Captain J.C. Fremont, U.S. Topographical Engineers and conducted by Lieut. J.W. Abert, assisted by Lieut. W.G. Peck, U.S.T.E. during the year 1845.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Arkansas, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and Exploring expeditions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Message from the president of the United States : in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert, on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians, in the fall of the year 1845

4.
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouuelle France en l'année 1638. Enuoyée au r. pere

Creator:
Le Jeune, Paul, 1592-1664
Published / Created:
M.DC.XXXVIII.
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN 1971 893: With bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering., Sig.: 2 l. not signed, A-D in eights, E-F in fours, A-D in eights, E in two., and Lenox Rel. no. 7. 1st issue. Harrisse 69. The 2nd issue has title as above except the line "Par le P. Pavl le Ievne;" p. 67 is correctly numbered in [pt. 2] which has been entirely reprinted, etc.
Publisher:
Chez Sebastien Cramoisy
Subject (Geographic):
North America., New France, and Canada
Subject (Name):
Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Indians of North America, Wyandot Indians, Indians, Discovery and exploration, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouuelle France en l'année 1638. Enuoyée au r. pere prouincial de la Compagnie de Iesus en la prouince de France

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