[Rarebooks] FS: First Study of the Colorado River [1861]

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Ives, Lieutenant Joseph C.  REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, 
EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858 BY LIEUTENANT JOSEPH C.IVES, Corps of 
Topographical Engineers...

Washington; Government Printing Office: 1861.
Senate issue.

The first study of the Colorado River, and one of the most desirable books 
on the River, its canyons and exploration. Ives was sent West to explore 
the navigability of the Colorado and, as usual, to check out the natives 
and landscape. The engraved and lithographed views are spectacular, and the 
7 chromolithographed plates of Native Americans are also quite 
extraordinary. In addition, the Geological Report by J.S. Newberry is worth 
noting as a detailed and fascinating account of the formations and their 
geology; there are three lithographed plates of fossils.

Hardcover. 9.5"x12", 131 + 14 + 154 + 30 + 32 pages; with b/w illustrations 
in the text, plus 2 folding maps; 11 engravings and lithographs of scenery; 
a profile plate of the route; 7 chromolithographed plates of Indians; 3 
lithographs of scenery and 3 of fossils; LACKS, as is so often the case, 
the two additional maps in the Geological section. Rebound in new marbled 
boards with a leather spine; new endpapers; the Profile map and 
frontispiece are supplied in FACSIMILE; some mild internal soil and 
browning, some offsetting; neat archival tape repairs to the folds of one 
folding map.  $300 net.


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