Sold by Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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First edition. Octavo (5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches). viii, 364 pp. plus frontispiece, 21 full page botanical illustrations and the large folding map. Modern half green calf over marbled boards, smooth spine with two morocco gilt lettering labels, avocao green endpapers. Deaccessioned from the Field Museum with the absolute minimum of tells; a very small number stamped directly above the imprint along with a very small perforated stamp (hard to see at first glance as it is so small), and a c=mush smaller than usual "Canceled" stamp on the verso of the title page. C complete and particularly clean copy in an attractive binding.The Death Valley Expedition was the first biological survey to commence from an 1890 act of Congress. The act appropriated funds to send expeditions to discover the geographic distributions of plants and animals in the United States. Led by botanist F. V. Colville (the first curator of the U.S. National Herbarium) the expedition also included included biologists, naturalists, botanists, and zoologists and was the first scientific investigation of the Park. The expedition spent about a month in the Spring of 1891 in Death Valley proper, and even longer in the general area, gathering specimens and taking notes. As this was quite a while before motorized vehicles were available this meant that they likely spent the month walking or in a buggy. This report by Coville is now considered a classic in the field. The work he did on this expedition qualified him to be a participating scientist on the Harriman Expedition and proved to be the seed that germinated into the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory.
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