[Rarebooks] FS: 1859 report of explorations for a wagon-route across Utah's Great Basin w/maps & lithos

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Simspon, James Hervey. REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. Lg. 4to. 518pp. Index plus 3 folding maps including the very large "Wagon Routes in the Territory of Utah" at back, and 22 lithograph plates. With the errata leaf, following the table of contents. Orig. green cloth, gilt spine. A very nice copy.    $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
At top of the title: "Engineer Department, U. S. Army." Howes: The Final Edition S508. One of a number of important Government reports, whose publication was long delayed by the Civil War, and the priorities of the G.P.O,.

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