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Author: Ives, Joseph C[hristmas]
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; 15 lithographed or engraved views; 7 color lithograph plates of Indians; 8 folding panoramas; 3 engraved paleontology plates 29x21.8 cm (11x8½ "), original rear cloth cover only. 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.... '" This copy without the two additional maps with added geological information, which were not issued in all copies and are often not present. Howes I92; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat Transmississippi 4, pp. 98-101.

Cloth on spine and edges flaked, glue repair to spine; small rip to one map, foxing and dampstains throughout; very good.