report colorado river west explored von ives lieutenant joseph (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This work has been rebound, put into black buckram covers with gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations, including fold-outs and tinted lithographs.

First edition, 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 4to. 131, 14, 154, 30, 6, 31, (1) pp. Illustrated, 25 plates (as called for in "List of Illustrations," with 8 chromolithographs and 6 scientific plates), 2 large folding maps, 8 panoramic views, profile. SABIN 35308: "The river, flowing between perpendicular walls a mile and quarter in altitude, is not the only development of this exploration that excites our interest. Lieutenant Ives was the first to give us the results of an intelligent observer of the celebrated, yet almost mythical, fortified villages of the Moquis Indians." Howes I-92. Streeter Sale 177. Wagner-Camp 375. Wheat Transmississippi 947. Farquhar 21. Flake 4287. Original brown blind stamped cloth (slight stain to upper outer corner of front cover), gilt image of a boat on front board, gilt spine title (mostly rubbed away). Internally fine with the exception of a small tear to first three leaves of the Geological Report, at gutter.