Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West in 1859 under the Command of Capt. J. N. Macomb.with Geological Report by Prof. J. S. Newberry

Original dark cloth boards with heavy wear. Ex-library with marks. Rubbed corners and edges, worn cloth at joints, faded and worn off gilt on spine, and slight bowing of boards. Binding tight. Newer endpapers. Dampstains on lower edge, extending into text, including some plates. Foxing on pages. All plates present as called for, including 11 chromo-lithographic landscape views, several in very good condition. Folding Map of Exploration and Surveys in New Mexico and Utah has light dampstains and fold splits. A report on Cretaceous fossils by F. B. Meek contains detailed fossil illustration plates. Though the survey was conducted in 1859, publication of this report was delayed due to the Civil War. John Strong Newberry, the geologist for the expedition, was one of the earlier geologic mappers of the west. Farquhar 23. ; Chromo-lithograph; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 152 pp.