The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, during the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52. Volume I. CHILE. Volume II; The Andes and Pampas, Minerals, Indian Remains, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes and Crustacea, Shells, Dried Plants, Living Plants and Seeds, Fossil Mammals, Fossil Shells

Washington, D. C. : A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer , 1855. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 33rd Congress, First Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 121. The first two volumes of the four actually published, there were 6 volumes originally planned. Bound in contemporary marbled boards and half leather, Very Good, the boards rubbed, bowing at top corner Vol. I, heavy toning at end pages with only occasional and widely scattered small spots of toning throughout, complete with 5 maps (mostly folding), 46 plates, including 25 colored and tinted plates of Cassin's birds, Indian antiquities, Indians, views (one of which is a 5 1/2 foot long tinted panorama of Santiago highlighted in bright hand coloring), and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. With a great Kentucky and U.S. House of Representatives ASSOCIATION COPY signature, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED -"For my friend Thomas A Respess, R. H. Stanton". Richard H. Stanton (1812-1891) Democrat from Kentucky served in the House of Representatives from 1849-1855, and was imprisoned during the Civil War for sedition. He was a lawyer, politician, judge, and editor of the Maysville Monitor from 1835 to 1842 Thomas A. Respess (1826-1918) was Clerk of the Marion Circuit Court in Maysville and was the 2nd for Col. Castro in the Metcalfe-Castro Duel. . (Inventory #: 010307)