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Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made during the years 1857 and 1858, by David Dale Owen ... assisted by William Elderhorst ... Edward T. Cox. [With pl.

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-01-10. Paperback. Good.

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Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, State Printers. Good with no dust jacket. 1858. Hardcover. Interesting cloth bound book, lovely pictorial plates throughout, look to be hand-colored, cover boards soiled and worn, binding tight, outter spine has been repaired, pretty script on front endsheets, neat bookplate ; 6.75 x 10; 250 pages .

Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1858.. 256pp., including half title, plus seven lithographic plates (six of them color tinted plates) and numerous wood engravings in text. Contemporary pebbled cloth, spine reinforced with later tape. Boards a bit bowed, edges and corners worn. Contemporary Little Rock Book Binder and Seller Ticket on front pastedown. Leaf containing pages 79 and 80 as well as the plate immediately following detached but present. Some gnawing to top edge of textblock, not affecting text. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. A good copy. Interesting early color Arkansas views. According to McGrath, five of the plates (lithographed by Hoen in Baltimore) were prepared with no fewer than three tinting stones in addition to the key stone. In this copy, six of the seven lithographic plates are tinted. The quite beautiful plates include: "Sugar Loaf Mountain of Searcy County," "Calico Rock on White River," "Sugar Loaf Mountain if Marion County," "Mammoth Spring of Fulton County,"… Read More

Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, State Printers, 1858. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 256pp., illustrated with one wood-engraved frontispiece plate, six color lithographic plates, and wood-engravings in text (including two full-page). Half-bound in contemporary dark green morocco and marbled paper over boards. Bookseller's ticket: "Bound by John E. Reardon, Book Seller, Little Rock" on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature in light pencil (Jacob Bally) on the front and rear free endpapers, with an additional manuscript note in pencil on the rear free endpaper dated April 26, 1864. Toning to intermittent text pages, small dampstain on page edges, some scuffing to the board edges and corners, dampened wrinkles on papercovered boards, about very good. An historically important report, featuring several fine plates. Scarce in the trade. *OCLC* locates seven copies. *Sabin* 58006.