Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Sitgreaves, Captain L - 1853

CHICAGO: RIO GRANDE PRESS. G+ IN ORANGE CLOTH WITH GILT LETTERING. NO DJ. Pages: 198 + PLATES. . 1962. REPRINT.. HARDCOVER.. REPRINT OF 1853 EDITION. X-LIBRARY W/USUAL FLAWS. TEXT CLEAN, BINDING TIGHT. ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL PLATES. .

Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854. Hardcover. Fair. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original brown cloth binding with the original decorative embossed brown cloth laid over the boards. 'Senate Documents' and eagle blind stamped on boards. Book has public library bookplate on its front pastedown and 19th cent. presentation inscription to the library on its endpaper. Approximate 1.5" x 2" section of bottom corner of front endpaper is torn off. Some foxing on the title page and sporadic spotting on the plates. Without the folding map at the rear of the volume

Washington, DC: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer . A clean hardcover presentation copy from Senator Hamilton Fish-- 16th Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States Senator from New York from 1851 to 1857 and the 26th United States Secretary of State from 1869 to 1877-- in fair condition; sunning, bumped corners, expected wear at extremities with torn cloth (only, but still tight) at external front hinge, end papers with foxing, missing map. SIGNED by Senator Hamilton Fish . Fair. Hardcover. 1854.

Washington D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Sitgreaves, Captain L. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. 198 pages. Brown cloth stamped and titled in blind and gilt. Folding map and 78 plates of scenes, birds, snakes, fishes, plants. Ex-library with usual markings. Heavily bumped, chipped, and rubbed. Cracked hinges. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851, crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Washington, D. C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer. Very Good. 1854. Second Edition. Hardcover. Original fragile cloth. Spine has a 3" split in the cloth, middle of the right edge. End papers are foxed, with moderate foxing to contents. 79 plates + folding map. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

Washington: Robert Armstrong. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 198 + pages; Senate executive no. 59. Original blindstamped cloth with light rubbing and wear. Complete with all plates and the large folding map in rear. I've opened the map part way and see no tears or much wear at all. Light to moderate foxing throughout. .

Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853., 1853. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original full calf, 198 pp.+ 24 tinted plates+ 53 black & white plates. Large folding topographical map of the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in fine condition. Senate Executive Doc No. 59, 32d Congress, 2d Session, 1853. Includes an index to the 11 Volumes of Senate Executive Documents bound into the front of this volume. The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from northern New Mexico, the expedition traveled west across Arizona and then south along the Colorado to Fort Yuma in California. "The expedition consisted of Sitgreaves, Lt. J.G. Parke, Dr. S.W. Woodhouse, R.H. Kern, with Major H.L. Kendrick in command of the escort and Antoine Leroux as guide. The group left Santo Domingo, New Mexico, on August 1, 1851, stopped at… Read More

Washington: Richard Armstrong, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Issue. 8vo. Original brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind on the boards and spine and with the title in copper on the spine. Spine sunned and title dulled, with wear to the edges and corners, else this is a very good copy with the textblock in near fine condition and seldom seen so. All plates present as issued. Note, however, that the Bird plate No. 2 was not issued; the Reptile plate 12 is misnumbered XIII. And, as Graff notes, the Landscape plates numbered 14-20 are misnumbered 15-21; all issued plates are here present. The large folding map is present. It is in good condition, with only a few separations at the folds, and a closed tear where it is detached. It is laid in at the rear. The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from… Read More

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Kansas City, KS: E. B. Barnett, Publisher Book. VG. Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Book is blue cloth covered boards with paste-on American flag on front. The book has minor shelf edge wear with no other defects to note. No date - circa 1919. 91 pages with black and white frontis - a picture of the author in fancy dress in Washington in 1909. Married to an officer of the 2nd Cavalry in 1866, Sargent relates to experiences at Fort Bidwell, Fort Walla Walla, to Arizona. Four years at Fort Huachuca, Fort Bowie, to Fort Logan, Colorado and at Fort Wingate. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Thus. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Near Fine. (xx), 1, 21, 1 pages. First Edition Thus. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Gilt spine-titling. 5 1/4" x 8". Slipcase. Limited to 350 copies printed by The University of California Press. Per the Introduction, "'The Helmet of Mambrino' well supports the claim of (Clarence) King's friends that his casual conversation often equalled the best literature of his day, for this letter to a friend was undoubtedly produced spontaneously without thought of publication." A beautifully produced small book. Neat pictorial bookplate at front pastedown; small bookseller's stamp removal scar to rear pastedown, but a Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus (slight abrasions at opening ends) slipcase. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

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Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.

Phoenix: Manufacturing Stationers Inc., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition; possibly rebound, as the date is stamped on the spine but not recently; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; vg (spine ends bumped and rubbed; top corner of front board bumped; edges and pages toning); ten fine folding maps, 399pp incl. index.

"Herein are listed the first families of California and also other persons with family names that were in California 1769-1785 except those who died at San Diego in 1769."

Harrisburg, PA; (1954): Stackpole Co. First Edition. Octavo. Convened at Chicago, Illinios, 13 January 1879. xxx, 303 p. illus., port., maps (part fold.) Vital and revealing testimony of participants in the Battle of the ittle Big Horn. Battlefield map endpapers. Bound in gray cloth lettered in blue, spine lettering blue, in clipped dust jacket with some cipping to head and edge wear.

Washington. Dept. of the Interior. 1893. Hardcover. 4to. 29cm, xxxii,239p., original gilt stamped brown cloth, a fine copy.(Ab) Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. IX.