Title: Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers Author: Sitgreaves, L. Place: Washington Publisher: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer Date: 1854 Description: 198 pp. Illustrated with 79 lithographed plates, most are duo-tone; large folding map (photostatic copy). (8vo) 9x5¾, rebacked in recent maroon cloth. First Edition, Second printing. The expedition, consisting 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 Lerouz as guide, "left Santo Domingo, New Mexico, on August 1, 1851, stopped at Zuni in September, and arrived in San Diego on November 30. Most of the lithographed plates are from drawings and paintings by Richard Kern a few by Edward Kern, some uncredited. They consist of 23 duotone lithographs of views (numbered 1-24, with no plate 14, as issued); 6 animal plates; 5 bird plates (no plate 2, as issued); 20 reptile plates; 3 fish plates; and 21 botanical plates. Howes S521; Wagner-Camp 230:2; Wheat, Transmississippi, 763. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine rubbed and lacking gilt; plates show occasional foxing, else very good. Item number: 194539
Title: Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers Author: Sitgreaves, L. Place: Washington Publisher: Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer Date: 1854 Description: 198 pp. Illustrated with 79 lithographed plates, most are duo-tone; large folding map (photostatic copy). (8vo) 9x5¾, rebacked in recent maroon cloth. First Edition, Second printing. The expedition, consisting 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 Lerouz as guide, "left Santo Domingo, New Mexico, on August 1, 1851, stopped at Zuni in September, and arrived in San Diego on November 30. Most of the lithographed plates are from drawings and paintings by Richard Kern a few by Edward Kern, some uncredited. They consist of 23 duotone lithographs of views (numbered 1-24, with no plate 14, as issued); 6 animal plates; 5 bird plates (no plate 2, as issued); 20 reptile plates; 3 fish plates; and 21 botanical plates. Howes S521; Wagner-Camp 230:2; Wheat, Transmississippi, 763. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine rubbed and lacking gilt; plates show occasional foxing, else very good. Item number: 194539
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