8vo (193 x 108 mm). (Some light intermittent spotting throughout.) Contemporary dark brown morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2 (rubbing, front hinge starting, minor losses along edges). Provenance: John Ignatius Bleasdale (1822-1884), English Roman Catholic priest, chemist, mineralogist, and viticulturalist who consulted northern California winegrowers (presentation inscription); annotations on front free endpaper presumably in the hand of Thomas Winthrop Streeter Sr. (1883-1965) as per bookseller's note laid in.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CREMONY TO JOHN BLEASEDALE: "With sincere regards of his friend, the author." Major John C. Cremony was the first white man to become fluent in the Apache language. He later wrote and published the first official Apache language glossary for the United States Army. He served as interpreter for John Russell Bartlett during Bartlett's time as United States Boundary Commissioner. Cowan,p.60; Edwards, Desert Voices p.45; Field 387; Graff 915; Howes C-879; Munk p.58; Rader 977; Raines p.57; Saunders 716; Wagner-Camp 234.