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Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), gilt and blindstamped brown cloth. Frontis., 495 pp., 23 plates, some fold-out. Bookplate on front paste-down, early ownership inscription in ink on flyleaf "13 7 Pay[ment] Book Baltmiore June 10th 1909," University of Baltimore library inkstamp on verso of title. CONDITION: Good, .25" loss at head of spine, spine severely sunned, library call-number visible at lower spine, light foxing throughout, library pocket affixed to rear endpaper, lacking companion vol. with two folding maps.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: The Senate issue of this title, very good- in original cloth. Plum embossed cloth is sunned on the spine, and there is some wear at the spine ends. Interior is tight, although there is some sporadic foxing throughout. Has only 13 of the 35 illustrations, and 13 of the 23 plates. Also lacking the maps. An account of the early exploration of Utah; includes appendices and an index; 495 pages. All pages are present, and where plates are missing there is no evidence of their removal.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Special Session, March, 1851, Senate. Executive, No. 3] 495 pages; tables; appendix, index; plates (missing four - 'Old Elk and his Squaw', 'Baron L Hontan's map of the Long River', and 'Valley Between Promontory Range and Rocky Butte', along with scientific plate 'Acephala'); also the three maps are missing. Chipping with a few small pieces missing to the spine, splitting along the spine, sun fading to the cover, some foxing not effecting text or plates. Becker - PLAINS & ROCKIES (1982) #219:3. "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."
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lacking the map volume. 495pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in plain bright orange cloth. New endpapers. Ex-library, with the usual markings, including a rubbed-out library mark to the spine. Sporadic foxing throughout. "Gunnison's Island- Eastern Shore" plate is duplicated. Missing the following plates: "Limestone Cliff," "View from Strong's Knob," and Insect plate IX. Flake 8360. 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.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Good. Rebacked with original spine cloth reattached, and new endsheets added. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. Plates lacking from pages 154, 178 and 202. U S Senate Executive document #3, Special Session, March 1851. Lacks map volume Original brown blind stamped cloth
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Missing pages 103-106. Also, missing plates at pages 102, 104, 202 and the two called for at page 368 Good with light bumping and rubbing to extremities, faded and chipped spine. Front hinge is soft and there is a two inchsplit in the endsheet at top of hinge. Light foxing to pages throughout
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Good only. The spine is faded, and contains numerous long cracks. The foot of the spine is chipped, and there is a 1 inch loss from the head of the spine. The corners of the covers are bumped, and the boards are exposed. The text block is cracked at p. 146. There is light foxing throughout the pages
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Fair with moisture damage, faded and spotted spine. Foxing throughout text with moisture stains to bottom corners of pages. Plate at page 370 is detached, and last 3 pages of index are missing. Otherwise a tight sturdy copy. As is Brown embossed leather with gilt lettering
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 495pp. Lacking the maps; all plates present except four [lacking Fort Bridger, Bowery, Baron La Hontan's Map, and Camp No. 4]. Bound in modern buckram, library marks, scattered light foxing. Margins of some plates a bit shaved. Good+. Wagner-Camp 219:3. Howes S884. Flake 8360.
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original cloth gilt. Spine cloth sunned and splitting. Foxing and damping throughout. Plates in the first section appear to be all or nearly all present although some mis-labeled and some out of order. Lacking about five of the plant or shell plates in the appendix. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 495 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Account of the important surveying & scientific expedition led by the author to survey new routes for emmigrants and a transcontinental railway; Stansbury also comments positively on the Mormons who had recently settled the area. Second Washington edition, the third edition overall; Howes S-844. LACKING the companion volume containing two folding maps. Hardcover, original brown cloth, gilt titling. General wear, spine ends frayed, short tear to upper front hinge; foxed inside, with sporadic other stains, light creases; missing the second of two plates of insects, possibly missing a scenic plate - the list of illustrations calls for two with slightly different titles, but there are two of the same illustration. Not all the plates are in the order they are listed in either, but all the rest are there, including a small folding map & three folding panoramic views; one is attached upside-down. Text clean; 495 pages; index, scientific appendices; 57 plates, most of them in two colors. Size: 6¼" by 9¼"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 55 lithograph plates, 3 folding. 495 pages. Thick 8vo, original brown blind-stamped cloth. Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. Overall a very good(-) copy, with foxing throughout and lacking 2 plates and 3 folding maps. Extensive geographic survey of area with descriptions of the Mormons. Details new route through the Rocky Mountains. Howes S-884. Wagner- Camp 219.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: In fair condition. Boards are sun faded along edges, rubbed corners. Loss along spine edges. Spine is quite faded with damaged extremes. Gilt work remains intact. Hinges loose, binding nearly broken. End papers slightly tanned. Interior toned with moderate foxing. Gutters are loose. Spine slightly slanted as a result. Folding plates in good, working order. Slight offsetting from plates. Free of marginalia. Please see photos. No companion atlas volume, not sure if this is complete. Stansbury was commissioned to make this exploration due to a great curiosity about the area and its Mormon settlers. There are observations regarding Native Americans, topography, flora and fauna. The plates of scenery are tinted and quite striking. Scarce.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$321.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early senate edition of this comprehensive exploration of the Salt Lake of Utah, including early references to the Church of Latter-day Saints, who had settled in the area in 1847. An early senate edition, with 'Special Session March 1851; Senate; Executive No.3' to head of title page but title page date 1853. First published by Lippincott the year prior.Lacking the separately issued atlas volume.Collated, with thirty three scenic plates, four of which are folding, and thirteen natural history plates. Lacking plates titled 'Crossing of the Platte' and 'Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point', as is common with this work. Several plates have been bound in the incorrect location and plate titled 'Strepanthus Crassicaulis' has been bound upside down.The first extensive survey of the Great Basin and an important step in the charting of the West of America. Captain Howard Stansbury's most notable achievement was this two year expedition surveying the Great Salt Lake and its surroundings. His exploration was notable as the first serious exploration of the area's flora and fauna as well as his positive response to the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had settled there five years prior. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart with slight bumping to the extremities. Slight fading to spine. Hinges slightly strained after frontispiece. Internally binding strained in places. Fort Laramie plate detached but present. Pages heavily spotted. Several plates closely cropped, not affecting the image. Lacking plates titled 'Crossing of the Platte' and 'Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point'. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 496 pp. Original blind stamped cloth, spine gilt. Same age rubbing. Spine sunned, corners worn. Spine ends bumped. Inscribed by previous owner (Oct. 17, 1884). Frontis. Light age discoloration and light foxing to edges of pages, not effecting text. Some browning to few pages. Illustrated with 57 (of 59) plates, including two folding plates and one folding map, but lacking the two large folding maps that should accompany this title, usually in a separate volume or portfolio. "One of the great overland classics for scientific observations, association with key frontier figures, and light shed on [the] California gold rush" - Mattes 634 (5 star). Overall, in good+ condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (slightly shaken, loose signatures). 495 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. 9 in. x 6 in., pp. 495. Maroon stamped cloth boards, ruled in blind. Gilt lettering to spine, as well as graphic in gilt of a buffalo. Bumped corners, Stained endpapers with some penciled writing. Frontis lithograph. All plates as called for, though several out of order. 58 lithographed illustrations. NOTE: Several plates facsimiles. Moderate foxing (light spotting) throughout. Two Maps (both originals) accompanying Stansbury's report, were originally issued as folded in a separate hardcover binding, but for protection and close study, the folding maps have been removed, and safely stored in a clear, archival display sleeve. [Maps will be mailed under separate cover in a mail-tube.] The first map is entitled "Map of a Reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau, by Capt. Howartd Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison Corpos Topographical Engineers, and Albert Carrington. The adjacent country laid down from the latest and most authentic data. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss." (Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West). The second accompanying map is titled "Map of the Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country in the Territory of Utah, Surveyed in 1849 and 1850.by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers and Albert Carrington. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss." "Captain Howard Stansbury, in 1849, had taken a topographical party west to make a thorough examination of the Great Salt Lake country, and the routes from it.He was accompanied by Lieutenant John Williams Gunnison, and they set out together from Fort Leavenworth on May 31, 1849, traveling near the tail-end of the California emigration. Both officers kept journals of the march, on which Stansbury also subsequently submitted an official report."
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: 495pp. plus fifty-seven plates (some folding) and folding map, with two additional large folding maps bound into a separate volume. Original blindstamped cloth, spine of text volume gilt, front board of map volume gilt. Spine of text volume faded, cloth of both volumes lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown of text volume. Scattered foxing. Small tears in both large maps; tears in lower portion of map affixed to front board. Very good. Third issue, after the Philadelphia and London issues of 1852. This work is a report of the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West, based on surveys made by Stansbury in 1849 and 1850. One of the large maps, "Map of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country in the Territory of Utah," permanently established the topography and place names of northern Utah. The other large "Map of a reconnoissance between Ft. Leavenworth, on the Missouri River, and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah.," showing the overland trail, was based on the work of Stansbury, Gunnison, Preuss, and Carrington. See Wheat for an exhaustive discussion. This account is also important as a pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. HOWES S884. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 764, 765, 766. WAGNER-CAMP 219:3. MINTZ 433. FLAKE 8360. GRAFF 3947 (1852 ed). FIELD 1490 (1852 ed). SABIN 90372. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1279. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 127 (ref).
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 487 pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with decorative blind stamped boards and title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Title gilt stamped on front board of map volume (which is also bound in brown cloth). Corners rubbed and the backstrip is faded and chipped at the ends, with 1/4" deep losses. Bookplate on front pastedown. Text block sporadically cracked. Missing Baron La Hontan's Map of "The Long River." Map volume present. Covers of map volume nearly completely split at the spine, but maps still holding. Plate VII (Plants) is bound in upside down. Complete set of Stansbury's Report and the accompanying maps. All fifty-nine plates are present and in good condition (all of the fold-outs are clean with no tearing at the folds) and both large maps present. 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 8360. Howes S884. Wagner/Camp 219:1. Scallawagiana 45. Wheat 764, 765. Fales/Flake 61. Graff 3947. Sabin 90372.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: Senate edition, Executive Document No. 3, Special Session, March, 1851. 2 volumes. Cloth, 495 pp. + 2 large folding maps in separate portfolio volume. 58 plates, including folding panoramic views. Many appendices, charts, tables, index. 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. In Mapping The Transmississippi West, Vol.3, pp.117-127, Carl Wheat describes the explorations of Stansbury and Lt. John Gunnison, and the important maps issued with this work as created by Stansbury; Gunnison; famous cartographer, Charles Preuss; and Albert Carrington. Both of the large maps are housed in a matching slipcase. Both maps are in very good condition. According to Wheat: "A good many details were added for the country lying between the established Oregon-California trail and Fremont's return from California in 1844, and these, together with the new cartography of the Great Salt Lake region, make the Stansbury expedition map one of the most important of its decade." Original cloth with gilt stamped back strip. Gentle wear to hinges otherwise very good copies. Complete with all 58 plates and the two large folding maps.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.