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CHICAGO: RIO GRANDE PRESS. G+ IN ORANGE CLOTH WITH GILT LETTERING. NO DJ. Pages: 198 + PLATES. . 1962. REPRINT.. HARDCOVER.. REPRINT OF 1853 EDITION. X-LIBRARY W/USUAL FLAWS. TEXT CLEAN, BINDING TIGHT. ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL PLATES. .

Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854. Hardcover. Fair. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original brown cloth binding with the original decorative embossed brown cloth laid over the boards. 'Senate Documents' and eagle blind stamped on boards. Book has public library bookplate on its front pastedown and 19th cent. presentation inscription to the library on its endpaper. Approximate 1.5" x 2" section of bottom corner of front endpaper is torn off. Some foxing on the title page and sporadic spotting on the plates. Without the folding map at the rear of the volume

Washington, DC: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer . A clean hardcover presentation copy from Senator Hamilton Fish-- 16th Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States Senator from New York from 1851 to 1857 and the 26th United States Secretary of State from 1869 to 1877-- in fair condition; sunning, bumped corners, expected wear at extremities with torn cloth (only, but still tight) at external front hinge, end papers with foxing, missing map. SIGNED by Senator Hamilton Fish . Fair. Hardcover. 1854.

Washington D.C: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer; The United States Senate, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Illustrated . Bound in full leather, covers bear blind tooled decorative border. Spine is adorned with two leather labels, red and black, stamped in gilt lettering reading "Senate Document, 2d Session, 32nd Congress. 1852-53". This Executive Document No. 59 is accompanied by numerous maps, sketches, views and illustrations, two of which are fold-out. Report includes sub-reports by various authors including 1)"Report of the Natural History of the Country Passed Over by the Exploring Expedition Under the Command of Brevet Captain L. Sitgreaves, U. S. Topographical Engineers, During the Year 1851" by S. W. Woodhouse, M.D., surgeon and naturalist to the expedition; 2)"Zoology", specifically: "Mammals and Birds" by S. W. Woodhouse, M.D.; "Reptiles", by Edward Hallowell, M.D.; "Fishes", by Prof. S. F. Baird and Charles Girard; and… Read More

Washington D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Sitgreaves, Captain L. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. 198 pages. Brown cloth stamped and titled in blind and gilt. Folding map and 78 plates of scenes, birds, snakes, fishes, plants. Ex-library with usual markings. Heavily bumped, chipped, and rubbed. Cracked hinges. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851, crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Washington, D. C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer. Very Good. 1854. Second Edition. Hardcover. Original fragile cloth. Spine has a 3" split in the cloth, middle of the right edge. End papers are foxed, with moderate foxing to contents. 79 plates + folding map. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

Washington: Robert Armstrong. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 198 + pages; Senate executive no. 59. Original blindstamped cloth with light rubbing and wear. Complete with all plates and the large folding map in rear. I've opened the map part way and see no tears or much wear at all. Light to moderate foxing throughout. .

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853., 1853. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original full calf, 198 pp.+ 24 tinted plates+ 53 black & white plates. Large folding topographical map of the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in fine condition. Senate Executive Doc No. 59, 32d Congress, 2d Session, 1853. Includes an index to the 11 Volumes of Senate Executive Documents bound into the front of this volume. The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from northern New Mexico, the expedition traveled west across Arizona and then south along the Colorado to Fort Yuma in California. "The expedition consisted of Sitgreaves, Lt. J.G. Parke, Dr. S.W. Woodhouse, R.H. Kern, with Major H.L. Kendrick in command of the escort and Antoine Leroux as guide. The group left Santo Domingo, New Mexico, on August 1, 1851, stopped at… Read More

Washington: Richard Armstrong, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Issue. 8vo. Original brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind on the boards and spine and with the title in copper on the spine. Spine sunned and title dulled, with wear to the edges and corners, else this is a very good copy with the textblock in near fine condition and seldom seen so. All plates present as issued. Note, however, that the Bird plate No. 2 was not issued; the Reptile plate 12 is misnumbered XIII. And, as Graff notes, the Landscape plates numbered 14-20 are misnumbered 15-21; all issued plates are here present. The large folding map is present. It is in good condition, with only a few separations at the folds, and a closed tear where it is detached. It is laid in at the rear. The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from… Read More