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 - 1853

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.

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

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.

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

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

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Account of the important surveying & scientific expedition led by the author to survey new routes for emmigrants and a transcontinental railway; Stansbury also comments positively on the Mormons who had recently settled the area. Second Washington edition, the third edition overall; Howes S-844. LACKING the companion volume containing two folding maps. Hardcover, original brown cloth, gilt titling. General wear, spine ends frayed, short tear to upper front hinge; foxed inside, with sporadic other stains, light creases; missing the second of two plates of insects, possibly missing a scenic plate - the list of illustrations calls for two with slightly different titles, but there are two of the same illustration. Not all the plates are in the order they are listed in either, but all the rest are there, including a small folding map & three folding panoramic views; one is attached upside-down. Text clean; 495 pages; index, scientific… Read More

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An early senate edition of this comprehensive exploration of the Salt Lake of Utah, including early references to the Church of Latter-day Saints, who had settled in the area in 1847. An early senate edition, with 'Special Session March 1851; Senate; Executive No.3' to head of title page but title page date 1853. First published by Lippincott the year prior. Lacking the separately issued atlas volume.Collated, with thirty three scenic plates, four of which are folding, and thirteen natural history plates. Lacking plates titled 'Crossing of the Platte' and 'Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point', as is common with this work. Several plates have been bound in the incorrect location and plate titled 'Strepanthus Crassicaulis' has been bound upside down. The first extensive survey of the Great Basin and an important step in the charting of the West of America. Captain Howard Stansbury's most notable… Read More

Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852; Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States; Senate, Special Session, March 1851, Executive No. 3. First edition.. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 487pp, b/w illusts, frontis., very good hardback, leather bound with brown & grey boards, green, light & brown spine with gilt text, some staining to boards & spine. Includes all illustrations but the two folded maps are missing. This is the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West. "Captain Stansbury, commanded the detachment of the Army's topographical engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants and possibly a railroad."---Wagner-Camp 219:1.