[AMERICAN WEST]. A group of 4 titles, including:
SITGREAVES, L., Capt. Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers. Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1854. Numerous lithographs, some folding; large folding map in facsimile. Original blindstamped brown cloth rebacked with original spine. FIRST EDITION, Senate issue. -- FREEMAN, Lewis. The Colorado River. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. Illustrated from photographs. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- FREEMAN, Lewis. Down the Grand Canyon. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- LaRUE, E.C. Water Power and Flood Control of Colorado River Below Green River, Utah. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925. Numerous folding plates, charts, etc. Later green cloth.
Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally good to very good.ANSON, George (1697-1762). A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. Compiled by Richard Walter. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748.
4to (254 x 197 mm). 42 engraved folding plates and maps (some offsetting from text to plates); 12 pp. list of subscribers (lacking directions to binder leaf). Full contemporary calf twice ruled in gilt, neatly rebacked to style with elaborate gilt tooling on spine. Provenance: James Pennyman (armorial bookplate and signature on title), whose name is listed as being a subscriber; Henry Fowler Broadwood (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE with unnumbered plates and page 319 misnumbered as 219. The official account of one of the landmark 18th-century circumnavigations: “This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” (Hill). RARE SUBSCRIBER’S COPY. Borba de Moraes, p. 38; Cox I, p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill 1817; Sabin 1625 101175.
[With:] a partial manuscript document signed (“Anson”) tipped to front pastedown, for a loan on salt, 21 May 1752. 2370_100