Title: Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859 Author: Macomb, John Navarre and John Strong Newberry Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1876 Description: viii, 152 pp. 11 chromolithograph landscape views, 3 black & white views, and 8 plates of fossil specimens; large folding map at rear. (4to) 29.5x23 cm. (11½x9") original brown cloth, rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. First Edition. Macomb's party travelled from St. Louis to Santa Fe, and then from Santa Fe to the Sierra de la Plata, the Sage Plain, and the Valley of the Upper Colorado. Originally scheduled to be printed in 1861, the Civil War delayed the publication for fifteen years. Howes M178. Farquhar 23. Wheat 983. Moffat 61. Lot Amendments Condition: Library of Congress duplicate stamp on rear of title page, previous owner's stamp on rear endpaper; light foxing to plates, map with some offsetting, splitting along one vertical fold; very good. Item number: 227101
Title: Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859 Author: Macomb, John Navarre and John Strong Newberry Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1876 Description: viii, 152 pp. 11 chromolithograph landscape views, 3 black & white views, and 8 plates of fossil specimens; large folding map at rear. (4to) 29.5x23 cm. (11½x9") original brown cloth, rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. First Edition. Macomb's party travelled from St. Louis to Santa Fe, and then from Santa Fe to the Sierra de la Plata, the Sage Plain, and the Valley of the Upper Colorado. Originally scheduled to be printed in 1861, the Civil War delayed the publication for fifteen years. Howes M178. Farquhar 23. Wheat 983. Moffat 61. Lot Amendments Condition: Library of Congress duplicate stamp on rear of title page, previous owner's stamp on rear endpaper; light foxing to plates, map with some offsetting, splitting along one vertical fold; very good. Item number: 227101
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