report colorado river west explored de ives lieutenant joseph (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. This work has been rebound, put into black buckram covers with gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations, including fold-outs and tinted lithographs.

First edition. First edition. Five parts in one volume. Quarto. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex Document. Original gilt pictorial, blind-stamped dark green cloth, gold stamping on spine. 2 large folding lithographic maps. One map has one, approximately 12" closed tear, professionally repaired. 8 fine folding lithographic views, 8 chromolithographic (beautiful color) plates showing dress of various Indian tribes along river and 16 lithographic plates of views (and fossils) from sketches by Baldwin Mollhausen. Probably best known as the engineer and architect of the Washington Monument, in 1857 Ives was promoted to first lieutenant and was named to lead an expedition up the Colorado River in order to develop potential routes of supply in the event of a war between the national government and the Mormon settlements in Desert (Utah). Ives's expedition included John Strong Newberry as naturalist, the Prussian Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen as artist and unofficial diarist, and F. W. Egloffstein as topographer. Ives purchased a steamboat in Philadelphia. The vessel was taken apart and shipped via the Isthmus of Panama to California and thence to the mouth of the Colorado River, where Ives and the members of his expedition rendezvoused late in 1857. Ives and his men reassembled the steamboat and christened it the Explorer. They launched the ship on 31 December 1857 and set out on their journey of reconnaissance. Ives' report is one of the first descriptions of the Grand Canyon (Big Canon of the Colorado) and of the area's native inhabitants. His expedition predated John Wesley Powell's expedition by a decade. "One of the most important and best illustrated army surveys of the American West. The report describes the activities of the expedition on the Colorado River in 1857-58 under the command of Ives. Goetzmann calls the book the best of individual army reports, "a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention tp scientific observation." Wheat is equally lavish in his praise of the maps, applauding the detail and design of the finished work. The primary work on the early exploration of the lower Colorado."--Bill Reese, The Best Of The West-163. Minimal foxing. Rubbing to corners and to head and toe of spine. Overall tight and clean. Very good.

First edition, 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 4to. 131, 14, 154, 30, 6, 31, (1) pp. Illustrated, 25 plates (as called for in "List of Illustrations," with 8 chromolithographs and 6 scientific plates), 2 large folding maps, 8 panoramic views, profile. SABIN 35308: "The river, flowing between perpendicular walls a mile and quarter in altitude, is not the only development of this exploration that excites our interest. Lieutenant Ives was the first to give us the results of an intelligent observer of the celebrated, yet almost mythical, fortified villages of the Moquis Indians." Howes I-92. Streeter Sale 177. Wagner-Camp 375. Wheat Transmississippi 947. Farquhar 21. Flake 4287. Original brown blind stamped cloth (slight stain to upper outer corner of front cover), gilt image of a boat on front board, gilt spine title (mostly rubbed away). Internally fine with the exception of a small tear to first three leaves of the Geological Report, at gutter.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Under the Direction of the Government Printing Office, 1861, Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge, foldout maps. Farquhar Bibliography #21. In five parts: General Report (131pp.), Hydrographic Report (14pp.), Geological Report by Newberry (154pp. plus plates), Botany by Gray, Torrey, and Englemann (30pp.) and Zoology by Baird (6pp.), plus appendixes on meteorology. Eight panoramics by Egloffstein; 12 full-page engravings, and 7 Indian plates reproduced here in color. In addition there are 41 woodcuts. Farquhar has high praise for Ives: ".one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field, for it is the first that deals specifically with the river itself. Moreover, the illustrations are remarkable: those from Möllhausen's sketches are often admirable.two from photographs represent perhaps the first use of the camera in Arizona, certainly on the Colorado River." J. S. Newberry's contribution as expedition geologist is especially significant, for Newberry was the first to postulate a geologic theory on the origin of Grand Canyon. All plates, foldout maps (2) and Indian portraits present and in Very Good condition. Former owner's interesting bookplate signed by former owner and a small penned gift inscription by Hon. Luther Hanchett at the bottom of the first blank endpaper dated 1861. Some minor foxing and off-setting as normal in this title. Older rebind, marbled boards, leather spine and corners, title and author in gilt on spine, wear to corners and edges. Internally a very nice copy. A handsome item for your library. PRESCOTT, AZ.