ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE TERTIARY HISTORY OF THE GRAND CANON DISTRICT (WITH MONOGRAPH); (XXIII Sheets, Complete, including Title Page/Table of Contents)

Washington DC: Department of the Interior / United States Geological Survey (Printed by Julius Bien), 1882. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 20 1/4 in x 17 3/4 in. Dark brown cloth-covered boards with recent rebacking -- red-gilt-lettering to front board with crossed geologist's hammers design and ruled in gilt, Black morocco spine, lettered in gilt. Shelfwear and rubbing to extremes, with professional reconstitution to worn corners. Library bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library, with 140-year-old accession, class and book numbers. Some paper repair to preliminary page. Title page lithographed by Julius Bien & Co., New York.

With 15 double-page color tinted lithographed views of the Grand Canyon, including one after Thomas Moran, and 9 after William H. Holmes. 11 double-page color lithographed maps, and 2 uncolored maps.

NOTE: The accompanying Atlas is a former-library copy. Most pages/images have a 2 1/4 inch x 3/4 inch perforating stamp of the Brooklyn Public Library near the outer edge. Chipping to some page edges. ALL the sheets present, including the gorgeous, often missing, panoramas by Thomas Moran and W.H. Holmes.

A lovely copy of this foundational work of Western Americana, complete, a wee bit rough around the edges, at an affordable price.

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MONOGRAPH Quarto. Brown cloth with leather spine. Contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering. Rubbing to extremities and general shelfwear, but solidly bound.

Monograph describing " of the great scientific expedition to the American West after the Civil War". Arguably has been called by noteworthy Colorado Plateau scholar Francis P. Farquar, "One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon books..." (Farquhar 73)

Chapters include General description of the topographic and geologic features of the Grand Canon District; The Mesozoic terraces upon the Northern border of the district; a description of the Vermilion Cliffs and the Valley of the Virgen; The Great Denudation; The Toroweap Valley and the middle portion of the Grand Canon; The Uinkaret Plateau; a journey from Kanab across the desert to the Kaibab Plateau and to the brink of the chasm; the scenery of the Grand Canon in the Kaibab Division viewed from Point Sublime; the amphitheaters of the Kaibab Division; Structural Geology and Evolution of the Kaibab Plateau; the Paria Plateau and the Marble Canon Platform; physical history and evolution of the Grand Canon District; The excavation of the Grand Canon -- corrasion and weathering; the excavation of the Grand Canon - origin of the details of its erosion.

This monograph HAS has arguably been called by noteworthy Colorado Plateau scholar Francis P. Farquar, "One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon books..." (Farquhar 73). This atlas is the "published result of the great scientific expedition to the American West after the Civil War...and illustrates the Grand Canyon in a series of panoramas and charts on large double-folio sheets..." Panoramas by Thomas Moran, but perhaps more distinctively, W.H. Holmes..." "...Historian of the American West William Goetzmann has called W. H. Holmes 'the greatest artist-topographer...that the West ever produced...his artistic technique was like no other's. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges, sloping monoclines, escarpments, plateaus, canyons, fault blocks, and grassy meadows that accurately depicted hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he could get details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera...his illustrations for Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation..."