Title:
The Great West: Its Attraction and Resources. Containing a Popular Description of the Marvelous Scenery, Physical Geography, Fossils, and Glaciers of This Wonderful Region; and the Recent Explorations in the Yellowstone Park, "The Wonderland of America," by Prof. F.V. Hayden...
Author:
Brodix, Charles R., publisher
Publisher:
Charles R. Brodix
Description:
528 pp. With steel-engraved frontispiece of Yosemite Valley; 3 double-page maps with light hand coloring; 24 wood-engraved plates. 9½x6¼, original brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Scarce work with much on Yellowstone National Park. The contributors include Ferdinand V. Hayden, Charles Raymond, W.B. Vickers, Lew Wallace (author of "Ben Hur"), Robert Strahorn, John C. Fremont, and others.
Lot Amendments
Condition:
Some darkening to the covers, extremities worn, front joing starting to split; hinges cracked at endpapers, occasional instances of yellow highlighting to the text, small hole in pp. 213-14; overall very good.
