Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859

Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, [DC], 1876

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Folio. 25 plates and maps (5 folding). 518 pp., errata tipped to p. [7]. Publisher's green cloth; cloth frayed at extremities and split at head of joints, front cover tender, small white paint splatter to front cover, large folding Plate E torn at folds, and folding map at rear torn at mount. The large (26 x 48 in.) folding map at rear shows the wagon routes through Utah Territory explored and opened by Simpson's expedition. This report includes the first printing of Edward M. Kern's diary of Frémont's 1845-6 expedition to survey the Great Salt Lake region. PROVENANCE: Everett D. Graff (booklabel); Newberry Library (deaccessioned and sold, Parke Bernet, 4 May 1966). REFERENCE: Graff 3791 (this copy); Howes S501; Sabin 81355; Wagner-Camp 345; Wheat, Transmississippi 999.

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Title
Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859
Author
SIMPSON, J[ames] H.
Publisher
Government Printing Office, Washington, [DC]
Publication year
1876
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First edition.
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Bull’s Head Rare Books was established in 2020 by Alex Obercian after more than a dozen years in the New York City book trade. BHRB deals in rare books and manuscripts in all fields, with a specialty in literature, historic bindings, photography, music, science and medicine and country life pursuits — gardening, farming, landscape design, and animal husbandry. Member ABAA and ILAB.

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