Dutton Captain Clarence (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. All plates and maps in very good condition. Minor foxing. Binder's label on front endpaper "The Bookbindery" Auckland, N.Z. Date "1884" written in ink on first page. ; This is the long report on "Hawaiian Volcanoes" by Clarence Edward Dutton, extracted from the "Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1882-'83" by J. W. Powell (director), Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. This extracted report has been rebound (late 20th century?) in full blue synthetic leather boards, with gilt lettering and rule on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 294 x 196mm. (75)-219, [1 (blank)] pages + plates numbered from II to XXX (29 plates in total, including 1 double page plate). The plates include 6 maps (5 folding, 1 double page): General Map of the Hawaiian Islands; Map of the Island of Hawaii; Map of Mokuaweoweo; Map of Mani; Map of Haleakala; Map of Oahu. The other plates include profiles, views, a panorama, plans of craters, and wood engraved illustrations. Some of the plates are folding. Illustrations include: Buttes and terraces at Hilea; Panorama of Mokuaweoweo; Cliffs on the windward coast; Kamehameha's temple; The eruption of 1858; Wailuku; The Pali; Diamond Head. Complete with all plates and illustrations called for in the list of Illustrations on page 79. Contents: Geography of the Hawaiian Islands; A Journey to Kilauea; Kilauea; Purlieus of Kilauea; Mauna Loa; Through Puna to Hilo; From Hilo to Mauna Kea; Hamakua - Kohala - Hualalai; Kona - Eruption of 1868; The Volcanic Problem; Maui; Oahu.

HAWAII (illustrator). First Edition. Full Description: DUTTON, Captain Clarence Edward. [HAWAII]. The Hawaiian Islands and People. A Lecture at the U.S. National Museum Under the Auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and of the Anthropological and Biological Societies of Washington. February 9th, 1884. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1884. First edition. Octavo pamphlet (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 230 x 145 mm). 32 pp. Original mauve printed wrappers. Stamp for the "U.S. Geological Survey Library 1884" to front wrapper, title-page and blank margin of page 27. Some sunning to spine and edges. A bit of chipping to wrapper along spine. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. "Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912) was one of several scientists who laid the foundations for modern geology from their work in North America during the late nineteenth century. Dutton was a career soldier who fought in the American Civil War and remained with the US Army Ordnance Corps to his retirement in 1901. Despite military obligations, Dutton developed a profound interest in geology and, on secondment first to the Powell Survey and later to the fledgling US Geological Survey, made important contributions to volcanic geology, seismology and physical geology. His lifelong fascination with volcanism led to improved understanding of the volcanic geology of the American West, Hawaii, and Central America. This work linked naturally with the emerging science of seismology, as reflected in his study of the 1886 earthquake in Charleston, South Carolina, and he is often credited with introducing the 'new seismology' to American scientific audiences." (Clarence Edward Dutton: soldier, polymath and aesthete. By Antony R. Orme.) HBS 69602. $1,000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MORAN, Thomas (1837-1926) - DUTTON, Captain Clarence E. (1841-1912). Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. Washington: Department of the Interior, 1882. Folio (20 x 17 4/8 inches). Lithographed title-page, 15 MAGNIFICENT double-page colour tinted lithographed views of the Grand Canyon, including one after Thomas Moran, based on a sketch by Holmes, and 9 after William H.Holmes plates, 11 double-page colour printed lithographed maps, and 2 uncoloured maps. Original publisher's brown cloth (shaken, worn and stained, spine strengthened with linen tape). Moran' famous painting"The Grand Caņon of the Yellowstone" (1872) was the first landscape the government hung in the Capitol, was purchased in June 1872, just three months after Congress voted to establish the Yellowstone area as the country's first national park. By 1873 Moran was in demand as an exploration artist. His work had been widely published, and The Grand Caņon of the Yellowstone had been favorably reviewed in newspapers and journals. Dutton's early field work centered on the Colorado Plateau. Out of it came a trilogy of related studies: Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah (1880), the Tertiary History of the Grand Caņon District (1882), and Mount Taylor and the Zuņi Plateau (1886). His description of this erosion-sculpted terrain enshrined Dutton, along with Powell and G. K. Gilbert, into the founding pantheon of geomorphology and the "American school" of geology. "Most spectacularly, along with Powell, Dutton virtually defined the meaning of the Grand Canyon for American civilization. According to his biographer, Wallace Stegner, "Dutton is almost as much the genius loci of the Grand Canyon as Muir is of Yosemite. And though it is Powell's monument to which the tourists walk after dinner to watch the sunset from the South Rim, it is with Dutton's eyes, as often as not, that they see" ([1953], pp. 173-74)." (Stephen J. Pyne for ANB).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Broadsheet chromolithograph (Image: 26 1/4 X 35 1/4; 66.7 X 89.5 cm. Sheet: 31 1/4 x 39 1/2 in.; 79.4 x 100.3 cm) BINDING/CONDITION: Loosely laid down on sturdy card and enclosed in mylar. (65B2B) A FINE COPY OF THIS SPECTACULAR PRINT IN PRISTINE, UNCIRCULATED CONDITION. Published by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad in 1912, after the original oil commissioned for (and still owned) by the line. It shows a tremendous sweep of the scenery in the Grand Canyon from Hermit Rim, with the shimmering, incandescent colors of the Canyon dramatically contrasted with the dark, gnarled pinyon pines in the foreground and the turbulent sky in the background. Famous for his awe-inspiring landscapes of the West, Thomas Moran first painted the Grand Canyon in 1873 ("Chasm of Colorado") which he sold to Congress the following year. The Santa Fe spur line, completed in 1901, was the first track to bring tourists within easy reach of the South Rim, and the railroad purchased art of the Canyon to promote this geologic attraction. In 1892 Moran visited the Canyon as a guest of the Santa Fe Railroad and painted a large canvas for the line in return for a free trip. Between 1901 and 1912, the railroad consistently sponsored "artists' excursions" there and purchased paintings to serve as a basis for promotional efforts. In 1912 the railroad capped a twenty-year association with Moran by commissioning this painting and subsequently producing this chromolithograph. Although 2,500 copies were printed, the majority did not survive or were badly damaged, as they were given to clients as promotional gifts or hung unframed (or poorly framed without glass) in Santa Fe railway stations. However, the corporation safely stored a number of the prints in its archives until 1996, when it placed the remaining stock with the Zaplin-Lampert Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Kinsey, Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste). The present copy of Moran's most striking printed image is from that group. Kinsey, Joni L., Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste (Lawrence, Kansas: Published for the Joslyn Art Museum by the University Press of Kansas, 2006, pp 217-222).