Exploration And Survey Of The Valley Of The Great Salt Lake Of Utah, Including A Reconnoissance Of A New Route Through The Rocky Mountains; Volume 2 by Stansbury, Howard

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), gilt and blindstamped brown cloth. Frontis., 495 pp., 23 plates, some fold-out. Bookplate on front paste-down, early ownership inscription in ink on flyleaf "13 7 Pay[ment] Book Baltmiore June 10th 1909," University of Baltimore library inkstamp on verso of title. CONDITION: Good, .25" loss at head of spine, spine severely sunned, library call-number visible at lower spine, light foxing throughout, library pocket affixed to rear endpaper, lacking companion vol. with two folding maps.

Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. First Thus . Hardcover. The Senate issue of this title, very good- in original cloth. Plum embossed cloth is sunned on the spine, and there is some wear at the spine ends. Interior is tight, although there is some sporadic foxing throughout. Has only 13 of the 35 illustrations, and 13 of the 23 plates. Also lacking the maps. An account of the early exploration of Utah; includes appendices and an index; 495 pages. All pages are present, and where plates are missing there is no evidence of their removal.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Robert Armstrong, 1853. Good. Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. 495pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good with light bumping and rubbing to extremities, faded and chipped spine. Front hinge is soft and there is a two inchsplit in the endsheet at top of hinge. Light foxing to pages throughout. Missing pages 103-106. Also, missing plates at pages 102, 104, 202 and the two called for at page 368.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), gilt and blindstamped brown cloth. Frontis., 495 pp., 23 plates, some fold-out. Previous ownership inscription in pencil on ffep "[Iseo?] K. Jenkins from his est. friend Pno[?] Tatum. Wilmington Delawar." CONDITION: Good, discolored cover, spine sunned, cracks along front spine-edge, library markings, library pocket affixed to rear endpaper, minimal foxing, lacks map volume.

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Early edition. Hardcover. Good. Lacking the map volume. 495pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in plain bright orange cloth. New endpapers. Ex-library, with the usual markings, including a rubbed-out library mark to the spine. Sporadic foxing throughout. "Gunnison's Island- Eastern Shore" plate is duplicated. Missing the following plates: "Limestone Cliff," "View from Strong's Knob," and Insect plate IX. Flake 8360. This is one of the great US Government exploration reports of the American West, and a must for any serious collector of exploration or Western Americana. "Stansbury's Report along with Gunnison's book, The Mormons, provided the outside world with an objective look at the Mormons of Utah as well as with a scientific appraisal of the resources and fauna and flora of this section of the Great Basin." - Brigham D. Madsen.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Armstrong, 1853. Very Good. Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. . Washington, DC: Armstrong, 1853. 495pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Faded spine, lightly-rubbed edges and slightly-frayed spine ends. Two missing plates after pages 126 and 154. Foxing throughout, though sometimes very light or even absent. Several illustrations are affected, but several others are very clean. Our cleanest copy to date with a very readable text. In mylar. Collated.

Robert Armstrong, 1853. Fair. Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. 2nd edition. 492pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown embossed leather with gilt lettering. Book condition: Fair with moisture damage, faded and spotted spine. Foxing throughout text with moisture stains to bottom corners of pages. Plate at page 370 is detached, and last 3 pages of index are missing. Otherwise a tight sturdy copy. As is.

Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government, 1853. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 495 pages. Features many illustrations and maps. 2 loose signatures - pages 102-106 and pages 406-410. Brown cloth covers with rubbing to corners. Spine strip missing. Light foxing to some pages. Good copy for rebinding. Record # 610689