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BARBER NoelABAA

Seven Days of Freedom: The Hungarian Uprising 1956

Ives Joseph ChristmasABAA

Report Upon the Colorado River of the West Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives Corps of Topographical Engineers Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys A.A. Humphreys Captain Topographical Engineers in Charge Caption title 36th Congress 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. Unnumbered

1861230141Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1861. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards and endpapers. Fine copy. Bookplate of the Burndy Library with withdrawal stamp on the front pastedown. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report "The best by far of these individual reports.It is a long carefully written journal consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report which accompanied Ives's narrative is one of the best of the government geological reports." Goetzmann gives a full account of the expedition in Army Exploration in the American West pp.379-94. Includes these separately numbered parts: Geological Report. By Dr. John Strong Newberry; Botany. By Professors Asa Gray John Torrey et al.; Zoology. By Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird; and Appendices<br/><br/>Inscribed by John Strong Newberry on the title page: "Prof. B. Silliman Jr. with the kind regards of J.S. Newberry." John Strong Newberry who was the naturalist on Ives' expedition up the Colorado River wrote Part III of this Report which deals with the Geology and Paleontology of the regions they explored. Ives' party were among the first white men to visit the floor of the Grand Canyon and upon their return it was Newberry who realized the canyon's geological significance and encouraged further exploration. It is likely that Newberry inscribed this copy to Benjamin Silliman Jr. a famous chemist and Yale professor whose analysis of "rock oil" in Pennsylvania in 1855 introduced investors to the potential of petroleum and led to the drilling of Edwin Drake's successful oil well on his property in 1857. Silliman also took on consulting activities in the American West in the 1860's and favorably reported on petroleum deposits in southern California as well as gold and silver properties in California Nevada and northern Arizona. Howes I-I92; Wagner-Camp 375; Sabin 35308; Wheat Transmississippi West 4: pp.98-101; Flake 4287; Goetzmann pp.379-394; Larned 412; Paher Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography 952; Arizona 100:47 Government Printing Office unknown books

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