Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah (Department of the Interior U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 307pp. Quarto [30 cm] Rebacked in black cloth, with the original brown cloth over the boards, and a recent printed paper title label adhered to the spine. With eleven heliotype plates, and 3 plates, in four parts (3 of which are fold-out). No atlas. Good condition. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges, there is a glue-stained patch on the front pastedown, and the title page, with notations in pencil, is detached, and laid in. The pages are clean. Item #45550
The first of Dutton's two great works for the USGS. Taken together, these works comprise the first detailed study of the four corners country and the Colorado Plateau: Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
Price: $425.00