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Stansbury, Howard; many 2 color plates, [Illustrator]. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the.. Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1852.

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Condition: Good

Description: 1852; Philadelphia; brown cloth covered boards with gold titles; heavy wear; spine is faded; pock marks along joints; corners are bumped; spine ends are frayed; Previous owner's name on front end paper; foxing and toning throughout; illustrations; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 487 pages

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including A Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains; [Senate Special Session, march, 1851]. Lippincott, Grambo, and CO., 1852, 1852.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good Hardcover in original purple blind-stamped cloth-covered boards; 487 pages; numerous B&W plates. Clean, unmarked copy; spine square; fading to exterior spine. very old, hand-written synopsis pasted in at rear; also an article from the "Boston News Bureau," dated July 9, 1918. Feel free to request photos.

Seller: Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Howard Stansbury. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Lippincott, Grambo, 1852.

Price: US$93.75 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Numerous plates and panorama fold outs one map good solid tight amazing colorized plates through out

Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Lippincott, Grambo and Co, Philadelphia, 1852.

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Description: Wagner Camp 21912 Good with rubbed and bumped extremities and loss to top corner of spine. Moisture damage with intermittent foxing and lightly browned page edges, but overall bright and clear text. This volume is lacking plates called for at pages : 60, 165, 169, 214 and 216 Green cloth with gilt lettering

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard.. EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH, Including A Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains. Senate Special Session, March 1851.. Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., Philadelphia, 1852.

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Condition: Good

Description: Original blindstamped cloth (very worn on spine enda), 487 pp., illus., index. Missing the separate two maps. Contents browned & foxed throughout. Senate issue. Primary text by Capt. Stansbury illustrated w/a frontis., 34 lithographic plates (2 fold out) & foldout facsimile of a part of a map of North America. Appendices illus. w/23 black & white plates of reptiles, insects, plants, & paleontology. Not pretty but good tight copy. Signatures of Sen. Ralph Yarborough & W(alter). P. Webb on endpapers.

Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah including a Reconnpisaance of a new Route Through the Rocky Mouyntains. Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 487p octavo, illustrated with 54 plates a couple folding, one with a closed tear, foxed. spine sunned, Front cover with a few white spots, fraying along the gutter.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Howard Stansbury. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains.. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. Pp.487 + [62] ff. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States (Special Session, March, 1851). Contains 62 beautiful lithographed plates on heavy paper, two of them folding, most of them two-color, and one folding map. The plates show native Americans, scenery, rock formations, surveyors at work, reptiles, insects, and fossils. Material on Sauk Indians, geology, natural history, the Sioux, with detailed descriptions of every landscape feature. Small ink stain to cover and fore-edge, not affecting printed area; fading to mulberry, blind-stamped cloth covers; wear to spine ends.

Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

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 Plate. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia: 1852., 1852.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

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.

Howard Stansbury. The map portfolio only from Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Lippincott, Grambo, 1852.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The very large folding maps in a blind-tooled cloth portfolio, 'Maps / Stansbury's Report' in gilt. 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 maps complete, but with numerous separations at the fold instersections, and with a lot of archival tape reinforcements.

Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

STANSBURY, HOWARD.. An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

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.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration And Survey Of The Valley Of The Great Salt Lake Of Utah, Including A Reconnoissance Of A New Route Through The Rocky Mountains (First Edition). Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852; Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States; Senate, Special Session, March 1851, Executive No. 3. First edition., 1852.

Price: US$369.54 + shipping

Description: 23.0 x 15.0cms, 487pp, b/w illusts, frontis., very good hardback, leather bound with brown & grey boards, green, light & brown spine with gilt text, some staining to boards & spine. Includes all illustrations but the two folded maps are missing. This is the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West. "Captain Stansbury, commanded the detachment of the Army's topographical engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants and possibly a railroad."---Wagner-Camp 219:1.

Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah; Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains. Lippincott, Grambo, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 487 pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth, leather label, several tape repairs, else very good. (35154). Ex libris Harold M. Agnew.

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE CITY OF UTAH, INCLUDING A RECONNOISSANCE OF A NEW ROUTE THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. BY HOWARD STANSBURY, CAPTAIN CORPS TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. SENATE. SPECIAL SESSION, MARCH, 1851. EXECUTIVE NO. 3. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 8, 487pp [a few pages uncut], 54 plates [lacking the paleontology plates], 2 large folding maps [lacks smaller facsimile map of part of North America, a couple closed tears at edges, no loss]. Front board absent, gilt lettered red morocco spine label [spine ends chipped]. Scattered foxing of text and plates, edges of textblock dustsoiled. Good+. Wagner-Camp 219:2.

Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.

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.. Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852.

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 region’s geography, natural history, and mineral composition. Despite initial challenges, Stansbury’s 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 community’s domestic relations. The report emphasized the region’s 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.

GUNNISON, J. W. , Lieut. The Mormons, or, Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake: A History of Their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects,; Derived from Personal Observation, During a Residence Among Them. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Frontispiece view of Nauvoo. 168 pages + 27 pages of publisher's ads. 12mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth (small area of wear. at rear corner, foxing throughout but not affecting the frontispiece). Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1852. First edition. Very good. John Gunnison was an army engineer and surveyor. "Lieutenant Gunnison had been assigned as assistant to Captain Howard Stansbury in the first exploration of the Great Salt Lake Basin by the Army's Topographical Engineers. Both of the officers were favorably impressed by the organization and communal spirit of the Saints. Gunnison's book reflects his views of the Mormons." Wagner-Camp 213:1. Flake 3746. Howes G-463.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. With Map Supplement. Lippincott, Grambo and Co, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$725.00 + shipping

Description: Good wtih rubbed, bumped, and faded edges, boards exposed at bottom corners, and cracked front joint. Spine has a two inch piece from head that has broken off and is laid inside front cover and a white paper label at lower spine. Previous owner printed book plate on front pastedown, and name stamped twice on front fly leaves. Previous owner name also in pencil on flyleaf, and ex-library name and perforation on title page. Pencil notations and remnants of library pocket removed on rear pastedown. Contents very good, and mostly clean with only occasional light foxing. Contents collated complete. Plates, illustrations and maps especially nice. Accompanying map volume is good with rubbed, bumped, and faded edges with boards exposed at corners. Spine has been reinforced with black binders tape. Ink notations on back of front folding map and rear folding map is loose but laid in. Edges of maps are a bit chipped, and folds are darkened but mostly clean and readable. Wagner Camp 219:2. Condition noted in price Original full brown blind stamped cloth

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

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.. Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852.

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 region’s geography, natural history, and mineral composition. Despite initial challenges, Stansbury’s 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 community’s domestic relations. The report emphasized the region’s 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.

STANSBURY, Howard.. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains.. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: 487 pp. + Atlas volume. Complete with all tinted lithographic illustrations (some folding); atlas with two large folding maps. 8vo, publisher's plum cloth. W-C 219:2. Institutional bookplates and old presentation inscription (to a private club library; spine sunned; cloth frayed at corners with shallow chipping to the extremities of the spine; plates clean and free of foxing. The Atlas is split in two at the spine, and the folding maps have many neat tissue reinforcements to corners, with numerous tiny losses; a few old lightly stained tape repairs to folds. U. S. Senate Exec. Doc. No. 3; Special Session, March, 1851.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Map volume present.. Lippincott, Grambo & Company, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo; 487 pages; Text volume in original blindstamped cloth with bumped corners, very minor wear and minor fading to spine. Interior with some light foxing throughout. Complete with all maps, including the 2 large folding maps in a seperate volume, and all 57 plates.

Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

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 Morman Settlement. Also, a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains. London [and] Philadelphia Sampson Low, Son, and Co. [and] Lippincott, Grambo and Co. 1852, 1852.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

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.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah with map volume. Two volumes. Senate Special Session March 1851. Lippincott, Grambo, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges. Backstrip is faded to brown but gilt remains bright. Previous owner's stamp and brief notes on endsheets. Pages have light moisture stains on edges and are sporadically lightly foxed. Collated complete with all plates sharing traits of pages. With a very good map volume with faintly moisture stained rear cover and light bumping. Small paper label on spine. Both folding maps are in good condition with a few misfolds and tiny holes at some juncture creases and a few minor repairs Plum colored embossed cloth. Brown embossed cloth

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Description: Front free endsheet is inscribed by the author [Stansbury] to Charles Gratiot (1786-1855) Good with rubbed and bumped edges, boards exposed at corners, and backstrip has small losses to ends, closed tear in middle and loss to one letter in title. Faint soiling to endsheets with library pocket mounted to front paste down and free endsheet has offsetting, creasing, and a short closed tear in fore edge. Top corner of text block and many pages moisture stained, light foxing througout, a few tears to fold-out illustrations, and numerical inscriptions penciled on rear paste down. Map volume good with both ends of spine "repaired" with black tape. Map paper bright, but numerous tape repairs on back of map to fold corners. Penciled in notes by former owner and his stamp on top corner of one map

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

STANSBURY, Howard (1806-1863).. An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah:. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852., 1852.

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.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains. Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1852.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: 487pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with decorative blind stamped boards and gilt stamped titles. Very good. The spine and top quarter of the front cover are heavily sun faded. There are numerous small dark stains on the spine. There are small losses from the spine ends. The largest loss is from the head of the spine, and measures 1/4 inch deep by 2 inches wide. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. There is a bookseller's small stamp on the front pastedown. The endsheets and flyleaves are slightly foxed. There is sporadic foxing throughout the pages and plates. The text block is subtly cracked a few times near the center. All plates are present. Map volume present. A complete set of Stansbury's Report and the accompanying maps. This is one of the great US Government exploration reports of the American West, and a must for any serious collector of exploration or Western Americana. "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." - Brigham D. Madsen. Flake/Draper 8359. Howes S894. Wagner/Camp 219:1. Scallawagiana 45. Wheat 764, 765. Fales/Flake 53. Auerbach 1255. Graff 3947.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains (Senate. Special Session, March, 1851. Executive No. 3). Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1852.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: 487pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown leather with red and black gilt stamped title labels on the backstrip (spine labels state: "Senate Documents Spec'l 32d Cong. Vol. 2, 1851). Borders decoratively tooled in black on the covers. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed. The front endsheet is cracked along the hinge, however the book is very sturdy. Internally clean, with only very occasional light foxing. This copy was bound without the listed illustrations, with the exception of the frontispiece. With the reptiles, insects, and plants plates (the reptile and insect plates are present in duplicate). Lacking the 4 paleontology plates. The two maps are bound in at the rear. The Map of the Great Salt Lake has a 5" closed tear that has been backed with tape, and the Map of the Reconnoissance of the Country between the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and the Missouri River, at Fort Leavenworth, is foxed. This is one of the great US Government exploration reports of the American West, and a must for any serious collector of exploration or Western Americana. "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." - Brigham D. Madsen. Flake/Draper 8359. Wagner/Camp 219:2.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains (Senate. Special Session, March, 1851. Executive No. 3). Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1852.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 487 pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Brown cloth with gilt stamped title on front board and decorative blindstamping. Illustrated. Index. Boards gently faded, areas of the underlying backstrip are exposed, contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown, text block cracked here and there. The covers of the map volume have faded at the extremities. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the verso of the first map. The maps themselves are in very good condition, with occasional small splits to the folds. The John Senex map, all single-sided plates, and all panoramic views are present in book (with the following plates bound out of sequence: "Cave on Fremont's Island"; reptile plates IV and VI; plant plate VI). Overall a nice, complete set of Stansbury's Report and the accompanying maps. This is one of the great US Government exploration reports of the American West, and a must for any serious collector of exploration or Western Americana. "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." - Brigham D. Madsen. Howes S894. Wagner/Camp 219:2. Scallawagiana 45. Wheat 764, 765. Moffat 26.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

STANSBURY, Howard. Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3. Exploration. , 1852.

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Description: STANSBURY, Howard. Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Phila.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 1st ed., 2nd state. 2 Vols. 487pp; 2 large folding maps. Illus., maps. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Light wear to spine ends, spine sunned, map volume rebacked, else a fully untrimmed, very good copy. HOWES S-884. Wagner-Camp 219. Field 1490. Graff 3947. With 59 tinted plates. The separate volume has 2 large folding maps: one of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country and the other of a reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River, and the Great Salt Lake in the Utah Territory. This state is identical to the first except for the title page. "Capt. Stansbury commanded the detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants and possibly a railroad." Robert H Becker, The Plains and the Rockies.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.