Lot 1121: HEAP, GWINN HARRIS. 1817-1887. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to

HEAP, GWINN HARRIS. 1817-1887.
Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853. Philadelphia: Limmincott, Grambo, and Co./London: Trubner and Co., 1854.
8vo (224 x 138 mm). 136, [46] ad pp. With 13 lithographed plates (most chromolithographed or tinted) and large folding engraved map. Original green cloth stamped in blind, spine titles gilt, publisher's ads on endpapers. A clean copy internally with some light wear to extremities of boards, map supplied from another copy and with stamp of N.S. Wales Library to verso and tipped to rear pastedown endpaper.
Provenance: New Jersey Historical Society (bookplate; institutional stamp and cancellation stamp to title).

FIRST EDITION; WITH THE SCARCE FOLDING MAP. Howes notes that the route map is "not inserted in all copies," and indeed copies with the map are much less common on the market than those without it. Cowan II p 273; Howes H378; Wagner-Camp 235.