2 volumes, 8vo, including text and atlas. 3 folding maps (2 large maps bound in atlas volume); 59 lithographed plates. (Some spotting throughout.) Original purple gilt-lettered cloth. Provenance: John Izard Middleton, Jr. (signature, April 1854); early 20th-century annotation recording purchase at auction; bookplate. 

FIRST EDITION, published in the same year as Stansbury's report to the Senate, Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, which was also published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Stansbury commanded a detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which explored the Great Salt Lake Basin in 1849. "Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants" (Wagner-Camp 219:1). Graff 1490; Howes S-884; Sabin 90370.