Ives's on exploration of the Colorado River

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Author: Ives, Joseph Christmas
Title: Report upon the Colorado River of the West
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1861
Description:

131, 14, 154, 30, 6, 31, [1] pp. Illustrated with 2 folding maps; 1 engraved profile; 14 lithographed or engraved views; 8 color lithograph plates of Native Americans; 8 folding panoramas; 3 engraved paleontology plates.(4to) original cloth covers. First Edition, Senate Issue.

Superb survey of the Colorado River, with exceptional illustrations after Möllhausen and others and including reports on the geology, botany and zoology by John Strong Newberry, Asa Grey, Spencer Fullerton Baird and others. Wagner-Camp notes that "William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives' complete report, 'The best by far of these individual reports... It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation....'" Howes I92; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat Transmississippi 4, pp. 98-101.
Condition Report: Rebacked, wear and rubbing to extremities; hinges repaired, internal offsetting and toning; overall very good.