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Description: Original brown cloth rebacked. . 487pp. Small quarto. (25cm x 15cm) 57 of (58) lithographic plates. Previous owner was a U.S.Army soilder stationed at Fort Morgan, Colorado with his name and date of 17th June 1866 in rear of book. He has some pencil notes in margins and over a couple of plates. One plate has some loss. . One plate missing (Cave on Fremont's Island). Lacking the two folded maps. Usual ex-library markings from the library of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky. Foxing. Rear gutter cracked.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. 487 + 58 Lithograph plates, (some folding and some tinted). 8vo. Original full cloth binding. First edition. As usual, without the separate folder containing the two maps. Mildly XLib. Howes S-884; Field 1490; Sabin 90372; Graff 3947; Wagner-Camp 219:2. "HOWARD STANSBURY, Born in New York City in 1806, Howard Stansbury was trained as a civil engineer. In October 1828 Stansbury secured a position with the U nited States topographical Bureau as a civil engineer, and for the next ten years was employed as a surveyor and supervisor of various public works in the Midwest and along the Atlantic Coast. On 7 July 1838 Stansbury was granted a commission as a first lieutenant in the newly formed Army Corps of Topographical Engineers and was advanced to captain in 1840. From 1838 to 1849 he directed projects for the corps in the Great Lakes region, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and, during the Mexican War, at some fortifications in the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico. The supreme assignment of his army career was to lead an expedition in 1849 to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. His orders directed him to survey and map the Great Salt Lake and its valley as well as Utah Valley; to evaluate the various emigrant roads in the area, including the Oregon Trail; and to examine and report on the capability of the Mormon community at Salt Lake City to provide food and supplies for overland travelers. During the year he and his second in command, Lieutenant J.W. Gunnison, spent in Utah, Stansbury completed his assignment and produced a remarkable Report, which also went through several editions as a private publication. Stansbury's Report along with Gunnison's book, The Mormons, provided the outside world with an objective look at the Mormons of Utah as well as with a scientific appraisal of the resources and fauna and flora of this section of the Great Basin. Captain Stansbury spent the next years, until the outbreak of the Civil War, improving harbors in the Great Lakes and building roads in Minnesota Territory. When the war came, he was appointed as mustering officer at Columbus, Ohio, and later was placed in charge of recruiting for the state of Wisconsin. Stansbury served only forty -five days in this post before he died on 13 April 1863 at the age of fifty-six of "disease of the heart." His obituary noted that his early death came as a result of the "over-exertions and hardships " endured during his Great Salt Lake expedition. Stansbury was buried at St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1863." Brigham D. Madsen. See: Brigham D. Madsen, Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50 (1989). SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W146 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: 8vo in portfolio of blind-tooled cloth, 'Maps / Stansbury's / Expedition' in gilt on the front board. Two very large folding maps: Map of the Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country; Map of a Reconnaissance Between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River and the Great Salt Lake'. Both are complete, but with numerous separations at the fold intersections, and with a lot of archival tape reinforcements. Both have light tinting at the boundaries.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. 487; 58 lithograph plates, (some folding, some tinted); spine and covers faded, rubbed, and bumped. Slight spotting on preliminary leaves.A very good copy+ in original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Without the separate folder containing the two maps. Howes S-884; Field 1490; Sabin 90372. Publisher: including a description of its geography, natural history, and minerals, and an analysis of its waters: with an authentic account of the Mormon settlement .
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1852 UTAH 1ed Expedition Valley Great Salt Lake Mormon Geography OVERLAND TRAIL An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah is a comprehensive report by Howard Stansbury detailing his two-year survey expedition of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, starting in 1849. Ordered by Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the mission was to evaluate emigration trails, scout possible locations for a transcontinental railroad, and study the regions geography, natural history, and mineral composition. Despite initial challenges, Stansburys team made significant explorations and collected extensive scientific data, even discovering a more direct route through the Rocky Mountains. The expedition also described the Mormon communitys domestic relations. The report emphasized the regions hidden agricultural and mineral wealth, suggesting its potential for future development. Item number: #41207 Price: $599 STNASBURY, Howard An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Description of its Geography, Natural History, and Minerals, and an Analysis of its Waters: With an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement. Illustrated by Numerous Beautiful Plates, From Drawings Taken on the Spot. Also, a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains, and Two Large and Accurate Maps of that Region. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852. First Edition. Details: Collation: Complete; o 487, [1] o 34 lithographic plates, 23 engraved plates o 1 folding map References: Field 1490; Graff 3947; Howes S-884; Sabin 90372; Wagner-Camp 219:2 Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Brown cloth Size: ~9in X 6.25in (23cm x 16cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 41207 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1852 UTAH 1ed Expedition Valley Great Salt Lake Mormon Geography OVERLAND TRAIL An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah is a comprehensive report by Howard Stansbury detailing his two-year survey expedition of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, starting in 1849. Ordered by Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the mission was to evaluate emigration trails, scout possible locations for a transcontinental railroad, and study the regions geography, natural history, and mineral composition. Despite initial challenges, Stansburys team made significant explorations and collected extensive scientific data, even discovering a more direct route through the Rocky Mountains. The expedition also described the Mormon communitys domestic relations. The report emphasized the regions hidden agricultural and mineral wealth, suggesting its potential for future development. Item number: #41352 Price: $750 STANSBURY, Howard An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Description of its Geography, Natural History, and Minerals, and an Analysis of its Waters: With an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement. Illustrated by Numerous Beautiful Plates, From Drawings Taken on the Spot. Also, a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains, and Two Large and Accurate Maps of that Region. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852. First Edition. First Issue. Details: Collation: Complete o 487, [1] o 54 lithographic plates o 4 folding plates and map Edition Note(s): First Issue o Title page: Heading reads, Special Session, March, 1851.} Senate. {Executive. No. 3 Reference(s): Field 1490; Flake 8360; Graff 3947; Howes S-884; Sabin 90372; Wagner-Camp 219:2 Provenance: Handwritten [Hugh D. M. Lillian] Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Brown cloth Size: ~9.25in X 6.25in (23.5cm x 15.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 41352 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
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Description: First Edition, first issue for the trade with the American sheets printed in Philadelphia, the original binding done for that issue and the title-page with the slug added showing both Sampson Low and Lippincott as the publishers. "Illustrated by numerous beautiful plates from drawings taken on the spot", these being a profusion of fine Ackerman lithographs, many tinted in colour and several folding, many engraved plates and a folding La Hontan map. The two large folding maps are present, the largest one now rolled and backed for easy use and the other in a binding specially made for it incorporating materials from the original map folder. Tall 8vo, in the original Lippincott tan cloth binding, with blind embossed covers featuring an American Eagle within ornate blind stamped framework surrounding the borders of the covers, the spine gilt lettered and with "Lippincott, Grambo and Co." in gilt with another American Eagle seal and gilt ruling. 487 pp. A very well preserved copy of this scarce and important book, especially so for being in the publisher's cloth binding. The hinges are strong and tight and the text is still largely unopened, the foxing always found on this title is there but lightly so and sporadic, frequently not being present at all, some offset as is common too from the lithographs, the plates themselves being quite fresh and clean. The brown cloth is faded, there is some expected edge wear and the spine has mellowed but the gilt is still quite bright. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT AMERICAN WESTERN TRAVEL NARRATIVE, an early work on the Mormon's in the Utah Territory and one replete with many fine lithographs and engraved plates. Stansbury's account of explorations from Fort Leavenworth to Great Salt Lake passes through a vast territory at that time only vaguely known to the outside world. His report of this very noteworthy military expedition is of great value for numerous reasons. Stansbury was a scrupulously honest and careful observer, thus his record of the physical features of the land, and of the people of the country through which he passed, is unsurpassed. He had liberal views of the Mormons, who were at that time considered highly suspicious by almost everyone outside of their community. Thus his writings were not based on hearsay or rash opinions but on a year's intimate acquaintance and close study of them, which was unique. The appendices to the report by various naturalists, complete with fine engraved plates, further enhance its scientific value. The route taken by Stansbury's expedition would become in later years that used by the famous 'Pony Express' mail service.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "2 volumes: text and Atlas, 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8 inches). 57 lithographic plates, including 3 folding and 31 tinted, one folding map bound in and two large folding maps in the atlas volume (some minor and occasional spotting, a bit browned). Original black cloth, gilt (rebacked to style). First trade edition, of the first extensive survey of the Great Basin and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West. Also issued by the Senate in the same year. In 1846 Stansbury "received the orders for the cornerstone of his career: the expedition to the Great Salt Lake in 1849-1850. On 31 May 1849 Stansbury left Fort Leavenworth with eighteen men, including Lieutenant John W. Gunnison, artist John Hudson, and Albert Carrington, a leading Mormon official. The company proceeded by way of South Pass in Wyoming to Fort Bridger, where Stansbury engaged Jim Bridger as a guide for the expedition. Dividing his men into two groups, Stansbury explored a new route to the Great Salt Lake by following a path between the Bear River and Echo Canyon trails. The expedition members spent the winter of 1849-1850 in Salt Lake City as guests of the Mormon population there. This, the most intricate part of Stansbury's mission, required diplomacy and tact. Since the Mormon state of Deseret (meaning "honeybee") was the only legally incorporated civil government in that area from 2 July 1849 through 5 February 1851, Stansbury and his men were to some extent visiting a foreign country. Stansbury managed to placate Mormon leader Brigham Young. Stansbury's later recollections of the Mormon leader and of his people are noteworthy, since they showed some objectivity toward the Mormons. On Brigham Young himself, Stansbury wrote, "his personal reputation I believe to be above reproach" (Stansbury, p. 147). On the matter of polygamy, Stansbury asserted that "its practical operation was quite different from what I had anticipated. Peace, harmony, and cheerfulness seemed to prevail. . . . Confidence and sisterly affection among the different members of the family seemed pre-eminently conspicuous" (Stansbury, pp. 137-38). Stansbury went on to praise the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Mormon people, while allowing that their beliefs would preclude them from living with any other Christian peoples without "constant collision, jealousy, and strife" (Stansbury, p. 138). In the spring of 1850 Stansbury and his party of explorers made a complete circumnavigation of Great Salt Lake and surveyed the area. On their return journey, Stansbury sought to pioneer a new route that would go due east from Salt Lake City through the Wasatch Mountains. Stansbury located what became known as Cheyenne Pass and Bridger Pass; his return route would later be used by the Overland Stage and the Union Pacific Railroad. On 6 October 1850, as his exploration neared its end, Stansbury suffered an injury; he was brought by an ambulance to Fort Laramie, where he arrived on 12 October, concluding what had been a significant venture into the Great Basin area and the newly created land of the Mormon people. Stansbury spent the next year and a half in Washington, D.C., where he wrote his classic report on the expedition. Originally printed as a government report, "An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake" (1852) was printed commercially in the same year. The report brought both praise and denunciation; Stansbury's elegant prose did not prevent critics from attacking his fair-minded observations of the Mormon settlements (ADNB). Graff 3947; Howes S-884."
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.