[Rarebooks] FS: 1861 Colorado River Report by Joseph Ives, with lithos

[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.  [02355]  $500.00


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