A Collection of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Paintings, &o. Relating to Utah and the Mormons Offered for Sale by Edward Eberstadt & Sons. 888 Madison Avenue, at 72nd Street, New York 21, N.Y. [Eberstadt catalogue 141]

119pp. Tall quarto [32 cm]. Disbound. With detached illustrated wraps and loose pages. All pages present. Bookseller's label on front wrap (Maxwell Hunley Rare Books of Beverly Hills and later, Pasadena). This was Eberstadt catalogue 141, issued in 1957, and was not included in the four volume Argosy-Antiquarian reprints of the Eberstadt catalogues done in 1965. (Credit for this information goes to our colleague, Michael Vinson, a rare book dealer who specializes in Western Americana.) An important 1950s catalog related to Utah and the Mormons. A collection of rare original historical sources embracing the beginnings of the Church in New York, the Removal to Ohio & Missouri, the Persecutions, the Flight to Illinois, and the Colony at Nauvoo, the Spreading into Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa, Travels Across the Plains and Settlement of Utah. New York City bookseller Edward Emory Eberstadt (1883-1958) was the foremost dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. His firm Edward Eberstadt & Sons built a renowned book collection, which formed the foundation of many acclaimed Western American repositories, such as Yale University (Coe Collection of Western Americana) and the Huntington Library.…