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CANYONS OF THE COLORADO by Powell, John Wesley - 1895

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CANYONS OF THE COLORADO by Powell, John Wesley - 1895

CANYONS OF THE COLORADO

by Powell, John Wesley

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Meadville, Pennsylvania: Flood & Vincent (Chatauqua-Century Press), 1895. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Thomas Moran, et al.. Large Quarto. (11.75" x 9"). Half-bound brown leather over textured cloth boards. Top edge gilt, with all leather junctures double-ruled in gilt. Bright gilt lettering to front board and five-hubbed spine. Masterfully restored from its previous library incarnation, by third-generation conservator/binders Old English Bindery of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A very few of the preliminary pages show tiny lower corner chips, and the tail (bottom edge) still tells the tale of a rough upbringing, and two library stamps professionally removed by conservator (pp. 29 and 30, respectively), but undeniably a gorgeous restoration of an exceedingly rare record of Western exploration. It is commonly believed that less than 100 copies of this first edition were issued.



NOTE: Binders Error: This copy lacks two (2) of the double-page "keys" called for: ("Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime Looking West" and "Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime Looking South". Further, a duplicate copy of the double-page illustration "Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime Looking East", was bound-in, in error.

About this greatly expanded account of (the one-armed) Powell's exploratory voyage and survey along the entire length of The Colorado River, Howes (P-527, p. 465) writes: "The first complete narrative; his earlier reports were largely devoted to scientific data." 400 pp. plus advertisement at rear. 250 illustrations. though reprinted several times in the twentieth-Century, exceedingly rare in this, the first edition. Gorgeous, restored copy of an extremely rare and groundbreaking narrative of pioneer exploration.

Beautiful, professionally restored copy of a highly desired cornerstone piece of the best collections of Western Americana.



About this greatly expanded account of (the one-armed) Powell's exploratory voyage and survey along the entire length of The Colorado River, Howes (P-527, p. 465) writes: "The first complete narrative; his earlier reports were largely devoted to scientific data." 400 pp. plus advertisement at rear. 250 illustrations. though reprinted several times in the twentieth-Century, exceedingly rare in this, the first edition. Gorgeous, restored copy of an extremely rare and groundbreaking narrative of pioneer exploration.

Beautiful, professionally restored, albeit slightly flawed copy of a highly desired cornerstone piece of the best collections of Western Americana, Powell, heretofore not much inclined to write lengthier pieces, yielded to pressure from Congressmen Garfield to complete the book-length report Explorations of the Colorado River of the West, published in 1875. When issued it included chapters by Harry Thompson, Elliott Coues, and G. Brown Goode, and as well included eighty-one illustrations, some by Thomas Moran.
But in 1895, twenty years later, "the publishers Flood & Vincent brought out a [this] new edition which "was now all Powell's book, his final statement on the country he had set out to understand and interpret..." He doubled the number of pages, and included three times the number of illustrations... but the most striking change Powell made...was that he now filled the book with Indians -- Apaches,Navajos, Utes, Paiutes --people who had effectively been erased from [previous] accounts...Even the white man is included in Powell's revised work, though he shows up merely as a cartoon figure desecrating the scene...What Powell seemed to be arguing however, was that it was not enough for Americans to understand or appreciate nature...People belong in our pictures and places..." (A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, by Donald Worster,Oxford U. Press, NY., 2001, pp. 332-335.).

  • Bookseller Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
  • Illustrator Thomas Moran, et al.
  • Format/Binding Leather-bound
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good Plus
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Flood & Vincent (Chatauqua-Century Press)
  • Place of Publication Meadville, Pennsylvania
  • Date Published 1895
  • Keywords Western Americana, The American West, Colorado River History,

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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. In 1869, John embarked on to discover the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He assembled nine men, four crafts and food for ten months and went from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. By way of perilous torrents, the team went through the Green River to its convergence with the Colorado River also previously called as the Grand River upriver from the intersection, adjacent to the modern Moab, Utah. </br></br>The excursion path voyaged to the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which John defined in his publicized diary as having spectacular topographies with carved walls, majestic arches, glens, alcove gulches, knolls and headstones. From which of these topographies must they choose a title? They all agreed to name it as Glen Canyon. Paradoxically, today around totally inundated by Lake Powell, at the rear of the Glen Canyon Dam. </br></br>A man named Goodman left after the first month and the other three namely Dunn and the Howland… Read More
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MP3 Audio CD. Canyons of the Colorado CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE COLORADO. The Colorado River is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green. The Grand River has its source in the Rocky Mountains, five or six miles west of Long's Peak. A group of little alpine lakes, that receive their waters directly from perpetual snowbanks, discharge into a common reservoir known as Grand Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. Its quiet surface reflects towering cliffs and crags of granite on its eastern shore, and stately pines and firs stand on its western margin. The Green River heads near Fremont's Peak, in the Wind River Mountains. This river, like the Grand, has its sources in alpine lakes fed by everlasting snows. Thousands of these little lakes, with deep, cold, emerald waters, are embosomed among the crags of the Rocky Mountains. These streams, born in the cold, gloomy solitudes of the upper mountain region, have a strange, eventful history as they pass down through gorges, tumbling in cascades and… Read More
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MP3 Audio CD. In 1869, John embarked on to discover the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He assembled nine men, four crafts and food for ten months and went from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. By way of perilous torrents, the team went through the Green River to its convergence with the Colorado River also previously called as the Grand River upriver from the intersection, adjacent to the modern Moab, Utah. The excursion path voyaged to the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which John defined in his publicized diary as having spectacular topographies with carved walls, majestic arches, glens, alcove gulches, knolls and headstones. From which of these topographies must they choose a title? They all agreed to name it as Glen Canyon. Paradoxically, today around totally inundated by Lake Powell, at the rear of the Glen Canyon Dam. A man named Goodman left after the first month and the other three namely Dunn and the Howland brothers departed at Separation Rapid in the third, only two days before the… Read More
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MP3 Audio CD. In 1869, John embarked on to discover the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He assembled nine men, four crafts and food for ten months and went from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. By way of perilous torrents, the team went through the Green River to its convergence with the Colorado River also previously called as the Grand River upriver from the intersection, adjacent to the modern Moab, Utah. The excursion path voyaged to the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which John defined in his publicized diary as having spectacular topographies with carved walls, majestic arches, glens, alcove gulches, knolls and headstones. From which of these topographies must they choose a title? They all agreed to name it as Glen Canyon. Paradoxically, today around totally inundated by Lake Powell, at the rear of the Glen Canyon Dam. A man named Goodman left after the first month and the other three namely Dunn and the Howland brothers departed at Separation Rapid in the third, only two days before the… Read More
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MP3 Audio CD. Canyons of the Colorado CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE COLORADO. The Colorado River is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green. The Grand River has its source in the Rocky Mountains, five or six miles west of Long's Peak. A group of little alpine lakes, that receive their waters directly from perpetual snowbanks, discharge into a common reservoir known as Grand Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. Its quiet surface reflects towering cliffs and crags of granite on its eastern shore, and stately pines and firs stand on its western margin. The Green River heads near Fremont's Peak, in the Wind River Mountains. This river, like the Grand, has its sources in alpine lakes fed by everlasting snows. Thousands of these little lakes, with deep, cold, emerald waters, are embosomed among the crags of the Rocky Mountains. These streams, born in the cold, gloomy solitudes of the upper mountain region, have a strange, eventful history as they pass down through gorges, tumbling in cascades and… Read More
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