BURTON, Richard Francis. The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862.
8vo (232 x 148 mm). Wood engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved plates, folding plan of the Great Salt Lake City Surveys, folding map of the Wahsatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake. (Tears and creasing to folding map and plan, pasted down newspaper clippings to front endpapers, spotting throughout.) Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine (loss to corner on upper cover, wear and associated losses). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Burton's travels in the American West. "Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically" Wagner-Camp 370:2.
