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Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869; Eliot Porter Photographs and Epilogue, 1969

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Auction archive: Lot number 101

Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869; Eliot Porter Photographs and Epilogue, 1969

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Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869; Eliot Porter Photographs and Epilogue, 1969 Author: Powell, John Wesley Place: New York, NY Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Date: 1969 Description: 168 pp. Foreword and notes by Don Fowler. Photographs and epilogue by Eliot Porter, illustrations, map. (Folio) 14¼x10½", beige linen boards, brown metallic spine lettering, photographically illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. John Wesley Powell, (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902), American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist, best known for his exploration of the upper portion of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Throughout the late 1850s he undertook several self-financed expeditions along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, where he collected fossils and studied the natural history and geology of the regions. In 1868 Powell organized another expedition, this time to explore the Colorado River from one of its tributaries in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming southward to its union with the Gulf of California in Mexico. Powell’s 10-man party included hunters, trappers, and fellow Civil War veterans. They left Green River Station, Wyoming, on May 24, 1869, in four small boats. At Lodore Canyon, Utah, one of the boats sank in a rapid, taking with it scientific instruments and about one-fourth of the party’s provisions. The party entered the Grand Canyon on August 5, at a point that Powell named four days later, writing: The walls of the cañon, 2,500 feet high, are of marble, of many beautiful colors, often polished below by the waves…. As this great bed forms a distinctive feature of the cañon, we call it Marble Cañon. Powell named many other features of the Grand Canyon during the voyage, including Silver Creek (which he later renamed Bright Angel Creek). Once within the Grand Canyon, the party experienced several calamities, including the loss of much of its remaining food through spoilage and the near-sinking of a second boat, which was later abandoned. Powell noted in his journal that his men’s morale was dangerously low. On August 28 three members of the party decided to quit the expedition and make their way to the nearest American settlement, some 75 miles away. The three were killed by members of the Shivwits band of the Paiute people who apparently believed they were encroaching on Shivwits territory. The next day, Powell called a halt to the expedition at the confluence of the Virgin and Colorado rivers, a site covered by present-day Lake Mead in Nevada. Powell returned to the Colorado River two years later, backed by an appropriation from the U.S. Congress and an 11-man crew that included several trained scientists. The second voyage (from May 22, 1871, to September 7, 1872) produced the first reliable maps of the Colorado River. Lot Amendments Condition: Small bookplate on title page bottom left corner; else near fine in near fine mylar protected jacket. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 317203

Auction archive: Lot number 101
Auction:
Datum:
2 Nov 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869; Eliot Porter Photographs and Epilogue, 1969 Author: Powell, John Wesley Place: New York, NY Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Date: 1969 Description: 168 pp. Foreword and notes by Don Fowler. Photographs and epilogue by Eliot Porter, illustrations, map. (Folio) 14¼x10½", beige linen boards, brown metallic spine lettering, photographically illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. John Wesley Powell, (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902), American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist, best known for his exploration of the upper portion of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Throughout the late 1850s he undertook several self-financed expeditions along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, where he collected fossils and studied the natural history and geology of the regions. In 1868 Powell organized another expedition, this time to explore the Colorado River from one of its tributaries in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming southward to its union with the Gulf of California in Mexico. Powell’s 10-man party included hunters, trappers, and fellow Civil War veterans. They left Green River Station, Wyoming, on May 24, 1869, in four small boats. At Lodore Canyon, Utah, one of the boats sank in a rapid, taking with it scientific instruments and about one-fourth of the party’s provisions. The party entered the Grand Canyon on August 5, at a point that Powell named four days later, writing: The walls of the cañon, 2,500 feet high, are of marble, of many beautiful colors, often polished below by the waves…. As this great bed forms a distinctive feature of the cañon, we call it Marble Cañon. Powell named many other features of the Grand Canyon during the voyage, including Silver Creek (which he later renamed Bright Angel Creek). Once within the Grand Canyon, the party experienced several calamities, including the loss of much of its remaining food through spoilage and the near-sinking of a second boat, which was later abandoned. Powell noted in his journal that his men’s morale was dangerously low. On August 28 three members of the party decided to quit the expedition and make their way to the nearest American settlement, some 75 miles away. The three were killed by members of the Shivwits band of the Paiute people who apparently believed they were encroaching on Shivwits territory. The next day, Powell called a halt to the expedition at the confluence of the Virgin and Colorado rivers, a site covered by present-day Lake Mead in Nevada. Powell returned to the Colorado River two years later, backed by an appropriation from the U.S. Congress and an 11-man crew that included several trained scientists. The second voyage (from May 22, 1871, to September 7, 1872) produced the first reliable maps of the Colorado River. Lot Amendments Condition: Small bookplate on title page bottom left corner; else near fine in near fine mylar protected jacket. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 317203

Auction archive: Lot number 101
Auction:
Datum:
2 Nov 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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