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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DUTTON, C.E. Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880.Quarto, pp. xxxii, 307, 11 heliotype plates, 2 folding maps but lacking the atlas folio, original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. The plates are not in numerical order.Dutton, an associate of John Wesley Powell, was one of the leading geologists of his era, and energetic in the field, covering 12,000 square miles with his Utah study. Wikipedia: "Dutton had a distinctive flair for literary description, and is best remembered today for his colorful (and sometimes flamboyant) descriptions. . 'Dutton first taught the world to look at that country and see it as it was.' -- Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian."Condition of this book:Boards worn, backstrip held in place only by tape.Leaves clean but plates dampstained at edges. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52181.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO ATLAS PRESENT WITH THIS COPY. 29 x 23 cm, xxxii, 307 pp., Ex library (Royal Society of Edinburgh), frontispiece of Propylite Gate of Monroe with intact but wrinkled tissue guard and 10 other Heliotype illustrations with tissue guards, three folding illustrations or sections, original brown blind stamped cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine, light wear but corners bumped and 6 cm. tear on both sides of upper spine covering. Sound binding, internally fine. U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region J. W. Powell, in Charge. Extra shipping charge dependent on location. I have two copies of the Atlas which I am about to list.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: 307pp. Quarto [30 cm] Rebacked in black cloth, with the original brown cloth over the boards, and a recent printed paper title label adhered to the spine. With eleven heliotype plates, and 3 plates, in four parts (3 of which are fold-out). No atlas. Good condition. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges, there is a glue-stained patch on the front pastedown, and the title page, with notations in pencil, is detached, and laid in. The pages are clean. The first of Dutton's two great works for the USGS. Taken together, these works comprise the first detailed study of the four corners country and the Colorado Plateau: Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NO ATLAS PRESENT WITH THIS COPY. 29 x 23 cm, xxxii, 307 pp., frontispiece of Propylite Gate of Monroe with intact Tissue guard and 10 other Heliotype illustrations with tissue guards, three folding illustrations or sections, original brown blind stamped cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine, very light wear but corners bumped. Sound binding but front inner hinge beginning to split at bottom. U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region J. W. Powell, in Charge. Extra shipping charge. I have two copies of the Atlas which I am about to list.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 4to. Original dark brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine, xxxii, 307pp. Illustrated with numerous charts. Plates, including three large folding ones in nice condition. Full-Page Heliotypes with protective tissues collated complete. Atlas not present. Classic survey and report associated with Department Of The Interior, U.S. Geographical And Geological Survey Of The Rocky Mountain Region, under the direction of J. W. Powell. Major geological work on Utah by the noted geologist, Clarence Dutton, that was published two years prior to his more famous work 'The Tertiary History of the Grand Canon.' This is the rarer of the two monographs. Clarence E. Dutton (1841-1912) was head of the division of volcanic geology for the U.S. Geological Survey and carried out geological investigations in the Grand Canyon and on the plateaus of Utah. Light wear to the spine ends and corners, interior clean and bright, else a very good copy.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: xxxii, 307 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w heliotype plates with tissue guards, 1 of which is folding, and 4 cross-section plates, all folding. 4to. At the head of the title: Department of the Interior U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell, in Charge. This copy is the text volume only, the Atlas volume is not present. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate. About very good, extremities worn, with some loss of cloth especially at spine ends, tape shadow on spine, small bookplate to front pastedown, marginal tear to one plate at fold, otherwise contents and plates quite fine. Original brown cloth ruled in blind, gilt titles
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.