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	Rare Book and Rare Maps by Featherstonaugh, George W.: Report of a Geological Reconnoissance made in 1835 from the Seat of Government by the way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory to the Coteau de Prarie, an Elevated Ridge Dividing the Missouri..... Featherstonhaugh, George W.; Report of a Geological Reconnoissance made in 1835 from the Seat of Government by the way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory to the Coteau de Prairie, an Elevated Ridge Dividing the Missouri from the St. Peter's River. Washington, 1836. Octavo, pp. 168, 4 plates containing 20 figures, and two large folded maps. PRICE: $1,600.00
	Rare book by Carver, Jonathan; Three Years Travels through the Interior Parts of North America. Carver, Jonathan; Three Years Travels through the Interior Parts of North America for more than Five Thousand Miles; Containing an Account of the Great Lakes, and allthe Lakes, Islands and Rivers, Cataracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil, and Vegetable Productions.......and an Appendix. Philadelphia, Key & Simpson, 1796. Octavo, pp. ix, 360, and 20 page list of subscribers. The text is complete and in a contemporary full calf with a gilt spine label. Owners book plate on paste down earlier penciled purchase notation on first page and small embossed stamp on title page. Light toning to outer margins of a few pages, binding is tight with light scuffing to boards and spine edges. In very good condition. PRICE: $500.00
	Rare Book by Cope, Edward D.; The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West. The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West. Report of the U. S. Geological Survey of the West, F. V. Hayden in charge, Vol. 3. Washington, 1883. Large quarto, pp. xxxiv, 1009, 38 wood cuts and 134 plates numbered I through LXXVa. PRICE: $600.00
	Rare book by Hayden, Ferdinand V.; Geology and Natural History of the Upper Missouri. Hayden, Ferdinand V.; On the Geology and Natural History of the Upper Missouri. Trans. American Philosophical Society, Vol. XII Part 1, New Series, 1862. Quarto, pp. 218, folded hand colored map, text illustrations. and On the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley; with a Map and Plates. Trans. American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. XII, pt. 2, 1862. Quarto, pp. 230, folded map, 2 tinted plates. PRICE: $500.00
	Rare Explorations: Lake Superior Copper and Western United States by Stockton and Fremont Fremont, John C.; Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-1844. Washington, SED, 174, 1845. Quarto, pp. 694, 22 plates, 5 maps including the folding 1845 “Map of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and California in the years 1843-4" by Charles Preuss. and Stockton, John; Report of the Secretary of War communicating a Report of John Stockton, Superintendent of the Mineral Lands on Lake Superior. Washington, Senate Ex. Doc., No. 175. 1845. pp. 22, folded map (21 inches by 11 inches) titled: Map of the Mineral Lands upon Lake Superior ceded to the United States Government by the Treaty of 1842 with the Chippeway Indians”. The two works are complete and bound as a set in a modern full calf with gilt titles. The binding is tight and very clean. The text is clean and bright, plates and maps are clean and bright. The large folded Fremont/Preuss map is rolled and in a separate archival case with map rebacked with archival tissue with minor wear at folds. The Stockton map is bright and very clean with short tear at spine gutter. A very good set of two important works on the exploration of the American west and Michigan’s mineral regions. PRICE: $5,900.00
	Rare geology book by Owen, David Dale; Report of a Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Owen, David Dale; Report of a Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Washington, SED 407, 1844. Octavo, pp. 191, 24 folded plates and maps (many colored). The text is complete and in a recent cloth and marbled boards with gilt cover and spine titles. The binding is tight and very clean, text and plates are exceptionally clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $400.00
	Rare geology map and book, Hayden, Ferdinand V.; Notes Explanatory of a Map and Section Illustrating the Geological Structure of the Country Bordering on the Missouri River, from the Mouth of the Platte River to Fort Union. Hayden, Ferdinand V.; Notes Explanatory of a Map and Section Illustrating the Geological Structure of the Country Bordering on the Missouri River, from the Mouth of the Platte River to Fort Union. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1857. Octavo, pp. 10, folded hand-colored folded map and profile. The report is complete and is not extracted from the Academy Proceedings volume. It has its own title page. The work is in a blue cloth with gilt spine titles. The binding is tight and clean, the text and map are very clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $400.00
	Rare Grand Canon Book by Clarence Dutton; Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas Dutton, Clarence E.; Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas. USGS Monograph 2, Washington, 1882. Text, quarto, pp. xiv, 264, colored frontispiece chromolith by Holmes of Smithsonian Butte, 1 colored chromolith by Holmes, 9 woodcut plates by Moran, 31 additional full page woodcuts, heliotypes and photoengravings. Atlas, folio, title page plus 22 additional double page sheets. Atlas in original cloth binding, gilt stamped titles. Binding is tight and clean, plates very clean. The text is in the in original cloth with gilt stamped titles, scuffing to boards, spine edges and corners nicely reworked, spine titles faded, text and plates are very clean. The panoramic views in the Kaibab division (plates 15-17) and Vulcans Throne panorama (plate 6) are exquisite. The Moran panorama of the amphitheater usually has severe blemishes caused by the oil based paint used. This copy is exceptionally clean with no blemishes to the plates. Overall a very good complete set of the greatest work done on the Grand Canyon with all plates in near fine condition. PRICE: $12,000.00

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