April 12, 2024
1875 FINEBINDING LEATHER GRAND CANYON POWELL INDIANS INDIA SAN FRANCISCO ARIZONA
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1875 FINEBINDING LEATHER GRAND CANYON POWELL INDIANS INDIA SAN FRANCISCO ARIZONA Description: From 1875, this is a handsome leather bound volume of Scribner's Monthly, issues bound together in handsome maroon leather, May to October 1875. 10x6 and a half inches, high quality leather with marbled boards, gilt titles, 4 raised bands on the spine, 794 pages, solid condition. Profusely illustrated. Material includes: The City of the Golden Gate (San Francisco, California). Maharajah Duleep Singh (India) A Visit to Benares, India, by Frank Vincent, Jr. Yung Wing and his Work, China. Chicago Illustrated (Illinois) How to Treat the Indians, by L. Edwin Dudley. He calls for justice on the reservations, which is unusual. The serial run of Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, 5 parts. Illustrated. An Overland Trip to the Grand Canyon, by J.W. Powell. John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies for development of the arid West which
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