Item #38273 Report Upon the Colorado River. Joseph C. IVES.

Report Upon the Colorado River

Item #38273

IVES, Joseph C. Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858. Washington, 1861. 131, 14, 154, [2], 30, 31, [1]pp. plus plates (some colored) and maps. Large quarto. Despite the existence of old waterstaining throughout, a very good copy in later 3/4 calf. Howes I-92. Wheat Transmississippi 947. Goetzmann, pp. 379-94. Flake 4287. Hill, p. 300. Streeter Sale 177. Wagner-Camp 375. Taxonomic Literature 786. Sabin 35308. 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 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 to 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 exploration of the Colorado.

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