[DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION]
WISLIZENUS, FREDERICK A. Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, Connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition, in 1846 and 1847. Washington: Tippin & Streeper, 1848. Senate issue. Disbound. 9 x 5 1/2 inches (23 x 14 cm); 141 pp., with three folding maps. Title stained, one map split along folds within the image and detached, creases, sold with all faults; Together with HUGHES, JOHN T. Doniphan's Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's Overland Expedition to California... Cincinnati: James, 1848. Second edition. Disbound. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 14 cm); with one frontispiece, in text woodcut illustration and battle plans, lacks maps and second frontispiece. Spotting, sold with all faults.

"Doniphan's and Kearney's conquests gave the United States its claim to New Mexico and Arizona, finally acquired by the Gadsden Purchase" - Howes H769; Wagner-Camp 134:3.