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BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). [MORMONS]. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. 8vo. Illustrated with 8 steel engraved plates, a fold-out map with hand-colored route, and folding plan of Salt Lake City. [xii], [1]-[708] pp. With half-title. Beautifully bound in modern half red levant morocco over marbled boards, spine decoratively ruled and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, two black gilt morocco lettering labels, marbled endleaves (ownership inkstamp of “Charles White Holly House, Warrington…” on half-title, and several inkstamps of the “Municipal Library Warrington” on several plates and text pages). Fine. FIRST EDITION. This book documents Burton’s travels in the American West, through Sioux territory to Salt Lake City and his meeting with Brigham Young. It provides one of the best accounts of the western portion of the United States just before the Civil War. “The City of Saints is one of [Burton’s] best works… a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation” (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, pp. 334-335). Penzer, pp. 68-69. Howes B-1033. Sabin 9497.