Captain Sitgreaves (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Near Fine Bright Clean And Tight No Names Or Marks, Brown Pebble Cloth With Gilt Title To Cover And Spine, Reprint Of The U.S. Government Printing Of 1853 198 Pages Of Text/Index Plus Plates Of Birds, Plants, Mammals Etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Previous owners bookplate. Reprint of 1853 Senate Report.

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. Full brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, heavily soiled book is cocked, sticker residue on the front endpaper, internally in very good condition. This is a facsimili reprint of the 1853 original. Overall in FAIR condition. A reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in full leather, covers bear blind tooled decorative border. Spine is adorned with two leather labels, red and black, stamped in gilt lettering reading "Senate Document, 2d Session, 32nd Congress. 1852-53". This Executive Document No. 59 is accompanied by numerous maps, sketches, views and illustrations, two of which are fold-out. Report includes sub-reports by various authors including 1)"Report of the Natural History of the Country Passed Over by the Exploring Expedition Under the Command of Brevet Captain L. Sitgreaves, U. S. Topographical Engineers, During the Year 1851" by S. W. Woodhouse, M.D., surgeon and naturalist to the expedition; 2)"Zoology", specifically: "Mammals and Birds" by S. W. Woodhouse, M.D.; "Reptiles", by Edward Hallowell, M.D.; "Fishes", by Prof. S. F. Baird and Charles Girard; and 3)"Botany", by Professor John Torrey. Includes a list of illustrations of landscapes, mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, plants, and maps; as well as a table of contents at the end of the report and index of scientific names. At the front, this volume includes a 31-page "Index to Executive Documents Printed by Order of The Senate of the United States, Second Session, Thirty-Second Congress, 1852-'53 in Eleven Volumes". Of those eleven volumes, this copy is listed as being Volume 10, Executive Document No. 59 within that index. 1-31, [3], 4-198, 78 plates (all present), and large fold out map. Includes Plate XXI which is not included on the list of illustrations. CONDITION: Overall moderate wear. Front joint is cracked, yet hinges are still strong and boards are well affixed. Binding is sound. Significantly foxed within the text, yet plates are much less affected and are magnificent. Ex-library with library stamps from "The Reynolds Library, Manchester" within the introductory pages and pastedowns. No ex-library mark on the spine. All plates are present. A very nice, fascinating copy. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Brown cloth, spine chipped, pieces missing, text solid. Full of prints, original. FER.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 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. Map is just laid in, I've opened the map part way and see some small closed tears, but not bad at all. Light to moderate foxing throughout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 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 northern New Mexico, the expedition traveled west across Arizona and then south along the Colorado to Fort Yuma in California. Graff p. 572. Howes S-521. .…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. A total of 198 pages with 79 plates and a large folding-map. One folding plate ( Buffalo Dance) . The plates include botanicals, views of nature and indigenous people, ornithology, reptiles, mammals, and fish. Some minor foxing throughout. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Exceptional copy with map unused.6 x 9.25 in.…