Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains

Title Variants

Alternative: Stansbury's expedition to the Great Salt Lake

Related Titles

Series: [United States. 32d Cong.] Special sess., March 1851. Senate, Ex. [doc.], no. 3
Series: Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate), 32d Congress, special session, no.3

By

United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Girard, Charles, 1822-1895
Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Hall, James, 1811-1898
Stansbury, Howard, 1806-1863
Torrey, John, 1796-1873
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852

Notes

Published also, London and Philadelphia, 1852, under title: An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah ...

"Appendix C. Zoology. Quadrupeds and birds, by Prof. Spencer F. Baird. Reptiles, by Prof. Baird and Chas. Girard. Insects, by Prof. Haldemann": p. [305]-379.

"Appendix D. Botany. Catalogue of plants collected by the expedition. By Professor John Torrey": p. [381]-397.

"Appendix E. Letter from Professor James Hall ... containing observations on the geology and palæontology of the country traversed by the expedition": p. [399]-414.

First edition. Howes, U.S.-iana, S 884.

Bound in purple cloth; stamped in gold and blind; buff endpapers.

Flake, C.J. Mormon bib, 8359

Subjects

Description and travel , Discovery and exploration , Great Salt Lake , Natural history , United States , Utah , West (U.S.)

BHL Collections

Unearthed! Smithsonian Libraries' Paleo Collection

Call Number

F826 .U557

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51702
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06034972
OCLC: 1468130