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STANSBURY, Howard (1806-1863). Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Special Session, March 1851. Senate Executive Document, no. 3. Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853.
8o (225 x 136 mm). 57 lithographed plates and 1 map (lacking the atlas of 2 maps, some scattered spotting). Original plum blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.
FIRST EDITION, third ("Senate") issue. Capt. Stansbury commanded the detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. This work is a report of the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West, based on surveys made by Stansbury in 1849 and 1850. This account is also important as a pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. Field 1490; Flake 8360; Howes S-884; Meisel III p. 115; Mintz 433; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 12798; Wagner-Camp-Becker 219:3; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 766.
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FIRST EDITION, third ("Senate") issue. Capt. Stansbury commanded the detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. This work is a report of the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West, based on surveys made by Stansbury in 1849 and 1850. This account is also important as a pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. Field 1490; Flake 8360; Howes S-884; Meisel III p. 115; Mintz 433; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 12798; Wagner-Camp-Becker 219:3; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 766.