Report upon the Colorado River of the West Ives, Joseph Christmas Western Rivers

131,154,30,6,31pp. Quarto [29 cm] Rebound in black buckram with gilt stamped leather label on the backstrip. Internally near fine. 25 of the 26 tipped-in plates are present(all eight Indian portraits have been nicely tinted) Both large folding maps are present at the front, both have short closed tears where they are bound in. All eight fold-out panoramas are present. Lacks the first mollusk plate in Section V. Small ink mark on copyright page that has bled through to the title-page and the facing transmittal page. Otherwise, internally near fine and bright. Binding is tight. This report is the first to deal with the Colorado River specifically. One of the most important and best illustrated United States Government surveys of the American west. This work describes in detail Lieut. Ives and his crew taking a steamboat up the Colorado River, the ship made it as far as Black Canyon (the site of the Hoover Dam). The group then went on foot making it to the lower Grand Canyon. The illustrations by Mollhausen are excellent and the fold-out panoramas by Frederick W. von Egloffstein are some of the earliest maps of the Canyon. Eberstadt 120: 120. Fales & Flake 105. Farquhar 21. Flake/Draper 4287. Howes I-92. Paher 952. Reese, Best of the West 163. Wagner/Camp 375. Wheat 947, 948. First Edition, House of Representatives Issue.