Heap Gwin (5 results)

cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 346pp, photos, fld maps, index, cloth nice rpt Howes T-378 (B) Rittenhouse #290 Flake #2943 Heap's major work with other material by Beale, Benton, Carson, and Hitchcock.

E.F. Beale and Gwin Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. The party travelled from Westport (Kansas City) southwest on the Santa Fe trail to Bent's Fort, then to the short-lived Fort Massachusetts, the Rio Grande Valley, the Grand River, and then to the Uncompahgre. They returned to Taos for supplies, then continued southwest via Utah to California. The map, which is present here, was issued with only a few copies. Wheat lauds the map and spends several pages discussing the journey, saying that it has received less attention than it deserves. He notes that it is the earliest published map to show the middle Rocky Mountain region, through what is now southern Colorado; the first to depict several streams and rivers; and the first attempt to chart a route through Death Valley. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the "Central Route" from Missouri to the Pacific, and a basic piece of Western Americana. This scarce issue of the first edition with the addition of a London imprint on the titlepage below the Philadelphia one, evidently intended for export, is unrecorded by Wagner-Camp and others. COWAN, p.273. HOWES H378, "b." MINTZ 562. SABIN 31175. WAGNER-CAMP 235. FLAKE 3934. RITTENHOUSE 290. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 808. STREETER SALE 3177. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 133. 136pp. plus thirteen lithographed plates (some tinted), folding map, and 46pp. of advertisements. Original green publisher's cloth, spine gilt, boards stamped in blind, publisher's patterned endpapers with advertisements. Corners a bit worn, boards slightly rubbed. Map with a few minor creases and an occasional faint fox mark. Light tanning, but overall internally clean. Very good plus.

HEAP, Gwin Harris. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale.in 1853. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1854. 136pp. plus 13 handsome lithographed plates (some tinted), and 32pp. of ads. Lacks the folding map. Half title. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine lightly sunned, else very good. Howes H-378. Cowan, p. 273. Mintz 562. Sabin 31175. Wagner-Camp 235. Flake 3934. Rittenhouse 290. Wheat Transmississippi 808. Beale and Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the route, and a basic piece of Western Americana. The rare map, issued with only a few copies, is not present here. Inscribed: "Glenn L. Babcock, Fayetteville, NY. Presented by Mrs. Ann Penfield." Both were residents of Fayetteville in the late nineteenth century.

HEAP, Gwin Harris. Central Route to the Pacific, From the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale.IN 1853. Philadelphia. 1854. 136pp. plus thirteen handsome lithographed plates (some tinted) and 16pp. of ads, and the folding map. Half title. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Minor wear to spine ends. The text, plates, and map are all in remarkably clean and fresh condition. A near fine copy, in a cloth case, leather label. COWAN, p.273. HOWES H378, "b." MINTZ 562. SABIN 31175. WAGNER-CAMP 235.FLAKE 3934. RITTENHOUSE 290. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 808. STREETER SALE 3177. E.F. Beale and Gwin Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. The party travelled from Westport (Kansas City) southwest on the Santa Fe trail to Bent's Fort, then to the short-lived Fort Massachusetts, the Rio Grande Valley, the Grand river and then to the Uncompahgre. They returned to Taos for supplies, and then continued southwest via Utah to California. The map, which is present here, was issued with only a few copies. Wheat lauds the map and spends several pages discussing the journey, saying that it has received less attention than it deserves. He notes that it is the earliest published map to show the middle Rocky Moutain region, through what is now southern Colorado, the first to depict several streams and rivers, and the first attempt to chart a route through Death Valley. This copy bears the armorial bookplate of James Ferguson of Kinmundy (Scotland) on a front free endpaper. The present copy of Heap's work is odd for having forty-six pages of advertisements at the end, more than the usual complement of thirty-two. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the "Central Route" from Missouri to the Pacific, and a basic piece of Western Americana.

HEAP, Gwin Harris. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale.in 1853. Philadelphia, 1854. 136pp. plus 13 handsome lithographed plates (some tinted), and 32pp. of ads. Lacks the folding map. Half title. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Cloth sunned, worn at spine ends and corners. Ex-lib., with blindstamp on titlepage the only indication. Very good.$1,500.00 Howes H-378. Cowan, p. 273. Mintz 562. Sabin 31175. Wagner-Camp 235. Flake 3934. Rittenhouse 290. Wheat Transmississippi 808. Beale and Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the route, and a basic piece of Western Americana. The rare map, issued with only a few copies, is not present here.