DUTTON, Clarence Edward, Captain. Atlas to Accompany the Monograph of the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. 1882. FIRST EDITION. [With:] Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives...1884-'85. 1885. Vol. 11 only.
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DUTTON, Clarence Edward, Captain (1841-1912). Atlas to Accompany the Monograph of the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. Washington, D. C.: Julius Bien & Co,, 1882.
Atlas volume only, folio (505 x 450 mm). Lithographed title, contents list, and 22 double-page lithographed or chromolithographed plates. Original brown gilt-lettered cloth (hinges tightened, some wear to corners and extremities, some minor dampstaining to upper corners); slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of "one of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West… [depicting] the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas" (Reese & Miles). Including panoramic views after Thomas Moran and William Henry Holmes of the Temples and Towers of the Virgen, the Toroweap Valley, Vulcan's Throne, the Uinkaret Plateau, Mount Trumbull, the Kaibab Plateau, Point Sublime. "One of the greatest if not the greatest of all Grand Canyon books" (Farquhar, The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon 73). Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire pp. 512-513; W.B. Reese & G.A. Miles, Creating America 40.
[Monograph with:] Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Eighth Congress. 1884-'85. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. Volume 11 only (of 17), 4to. Geological plans and plates (some in color or double-page). Modern cloth.
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