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FIRST REPORT OF A GEOLOGICAL RECONNOISSANCE OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ARKANSAS, MADE DURING THE YEARS 1857 AND 1858
by Owen, David Dale
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About This Item
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1858.. 256pp., including half title, plus seven lithographic plates (six of them color tinted plates) and numerous wood engravings in text. Contemporary pebbled cloth, spine reinforced with later tape. Boards a bit bowed, edges and corners worn. Contemporary Little Rock Book Binder and Seller Ticket on front pastedown. Leaf containing pages 79 and 80 as well as the plate immediately following detached but present. Some gnawing to top edge of textblock, not affecting text. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. A good copy. Interesting early color Arkansas views. According to McGrath, five of the plates (lithographed by Hoen in Baltimore) were prepared with no fewer than three tinting stones in addition to the key stone. In this copy, six of the seven lithographic plates are tinted. The quite beautiful plates include: "Sugar Loaf Mountain of Searcy County," "Calico Rock on White River," "Sugar Loaf Mountain if Marion County," "Mammoth Spring of Fulton County," "Prominent Mass of Sandstone," "Rock House on Cave Creek, Newton County," and "Natural Dam Across Lee's Creek in Crawford County." Owen's survey was undertaken as part of the mid-19th-century push to discover and use all America's natural resources, thereby cutting down on the need for imports. McGRATH, pp.82, 135. BENNETT, p.87. ALLEN 328. SABIN 58006.
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- William Reese Company
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- WRCAM58384
- Title
- FIRST REPORT OF A GEOLOGICAL RECONNOISSANCE OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ARKANSAS, MADE DURING THE YEARS 1857 AND 1858
- Author
- Owen, David Dale
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Johnson & Yerkes
- Place of Publication
- Little Rock
- Date Published
- 1858.
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Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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