Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including A Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains
by Stansbury, Howard
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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.
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- Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including A Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains
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- Stansbury, Howard
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- Used
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- Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853
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