EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE CITY OF UTAH, INCLUDING A RECONNOISSANCE OF A NEW ROUTE THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS; (SENATE Special Session March 1851; Executive, No. 3) Printed by Order of House of Representatives of The United States) de Stansbury, Howard (Captain Corps Topographical Engineers, U.S. Army) - 1853

Washington DC: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 9 in. x 6 in., pp. 495. Maroon stamped cloth boards, ruled in blind. Gilt lettering to spine, as well as graphic in gilt of a buffalo. Bumped corners, Stained endpapers with some penciled writing. Frontis lithograph. All plates as called for, though several out of order. 58 lithographed illustrations. NOTE: Several plates are latter-day facsimiles to replace the few (previously) missing plates. Moderate foxing (light spotting) throughout.

Two Maps (both originals) accompanying Stansbury's report, were originally issued as folded in a separate hardcover binding, but for protection and close study, the folding maps have been removed, and safely stored in a clear, archival display sleeve. [Maps will be mailed under separate cover in a mail-tube.] Maps are in generally good condition, with some staining to folds, archival tape professionally applied to several folds, and a few short closed tears to edges; quarter size open tear to center of second map.

The first map is entitled "Map of a Reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau, by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison Corpos Topographical Engineers, and Albert Carrington. The adjacent country laid down from the latest and most authentic data. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss." (Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West).

The second accompanying map is titled "Map of the Great Salt Lake and Adjacent Country in the Territory of Utah, Surveyed in 1849 and 1850...by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers and Albert Carrington. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss." "Captain Howard Stansbury, in 1849, had taken a topographical party west to make a thorough examination of the Great Salt Lake country, and the routes from it...He was accompanied by Lieutenant John Williams Gunnison, and they set out together from Fort Leavenworth on May 31, 1849, traveling near the tail-end of the California emigration. Both officers kept journals of the march, on which Stansbury also subsequently submitted an official report."