Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 780
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ARIZONA.) Ives, Joseph Christmas. Report upon the Colorado River of the West. 2 folding maps (lacking the duplicate copies issued with the Senate edition) and 34 plates. 4to, later buckram with portion of original backstrip laid down; minor foxing and offsetting, but quite a nice copy internally. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. Washington, 1861
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Ives and his party were the first to map the Grand Canyon, which he famously described here as "altogether valueless": "It can be approached only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do but leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality. It seems intended by nature that the Colorado, along the greater portion of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed" (page 110). Howes I-92; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375 (calls for extra maps in Senate issue, not seen here or elsewhere); Wheat Trans-Mississippi West, pages IV:95-101.