Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers [Senate 33rd Congress; 1st Session]
by Captain L. Sitgreaves
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Brown faded cloth with gilt title to spine. A total of 198 pages with 79 plates to rear and a large detached folding-map. One folding plate titled Buffalo Dance. The plates include botanicals, views of nature and indigenous people, ornithology, reptiles, mammals, and fish. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Loses to edges and centerfolds of map (see image). Some minor foxing throughout. Text block begining to separate from front gutter. No previous owners' names or other defacements.
6 x 9.25 in
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- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9147
- Title
- Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers [Senate 33rd Congress; 1st Session]
- Author
- Captain L. Sitgreaves
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beverley Tucker
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1854
- Pages
- 198 [79]
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Natural History; Native American, Indigenous Peoples;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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About the Seller
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Gutter
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...