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Author: Stansbury, Howard
Title: Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Date Published: 1852
Description: 2 volumes. 487 pp. With 57 lithograph plates, many tinted, plus folding map. Atlas volume consists of two lithographed maps folding maps colored in outline, bound into cloth covers. 22.8x14 cm (9x5½"), original cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Senate Issue. First Edition.Stansbury's important exploration of the Great Salt Lake Basin and his report on the newly established Mormon settlements, as well as the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants and possibly a railroad. The two important large folding maps are included in the separate volume. "Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country..." (measuring 109.7x75 cm or 43x29¼"); "Reconnoissance between Fort Leavenworth...and Great Salt Lake" (measuring 73x171 cm or 28x67"). Wheat describes Stansbury's explorations in detail and says his Map of the Great Salt Lake permanently established the topography and many of the place names of northwestern Utah.Field 1940; Graff 3947; New Howes S894; Sabin 90372; Wagner-Camp 219:2; Mattes Platte River Road Narratives, 634, 974; Wheat, Transmississippi 3, Maps 764 & 765.

Slight rubbing and wear to cloth boards, foot of front joint splitting; foxing throughout, tears to folding plate repaired with tape; map volume spine crudely repaired with tape; maps with some faint toning and foxing, splits along folds and at corners, 'Great Salt Lake' map in two pieces, minimal paper loss; very good.