[GRAND CANYON] DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK S. A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872. New York: Putnam, 1908. First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. Wm. B. Dunning, with the kind regards of F.S. Dellenbaugh, June 4th, 1912." Publisher's pictorial cloth after a design by the author, top edge gilt, pictorial dust jacket replicating the design on the cover. 9 x 5 3/4 inches (22.5 x 14.5 cm); [1] ad, xx, [2], 277 + [6] pp.; with 3 plates from sketches by Dellenbaugh, 2 in color including the frontispiece; 46 plates from photographs by E.O. Beaman, Jack Hilliers & others; 5 maps, 4 of them folding; head & tailpieces from sketches. A remarkably fresh copy, extremely uncommon in the the rare jacket. We trace no other copies than this at auction in jacket, and none inscribed. Samuel Dellenbaugh was one of the founders of the Explorers Club; he accompanied John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River as artist and assistant topographer. Flake 2758. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[GRAND CANYON] DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK S. A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872. New York: Putnam, 1908. First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. Wm. B. Dunning, with the kind regards of F.S. Dellenbaugh, June 4th, 1912." Publisher's pictorial cloth after a design by the author, top edge gilt, pictorial dust jacket replicating the design on the cover. 9 x 5 3/4 inches (22.5 x 14.5 cm); [1] ad, xx, [2], 277 + [6] pp.; with 3 plates from sketches by Dellenbaugh, 2 in color including the frontispiece; 46 plates from photographs by E.O. Beaman, Jack Hilliers & others; 5 maps, 4 of them folding; head & tailpieces from sketches. A remarkably fresh copy, extremely uncommon in the the rare jacket. We trace no other copies than this at auction in jacket, and none inscribed. Samuel Dellenbaugh was one of the founders of the Explorers Club; he accompanied John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River as artist and assistant topographer. Flake 2758. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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