New York NY: E.P. Dutton 1969. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Beige subsequent printing in orange cloth linen boards w/brown metallic spine lettering/NF. DJ/NF; w/initial printing price and price for printings after Jan 1st 1970; under mylar. Trace brown spotting acidic paper reaction to front/rear endpapers. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN: 0525095233 subsequently assigned. Narrative contains John Wesley Powell's 1834 - 1902 journal of the 13-week Geographic Expedition of 1869 down the Green and Colorado Rivers marking the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell's journal first published in Scribner's Magazine; for this volume the journal is edited and introduced by Don Fowler. Book includes drawings and illustrations of Powell's contemporaries and a 48-page gallery of 4-color photos of photographer Eliot Porter 1901 - 1990 who since the 1940s used the technique of Eastman Kodak's new dye transfer process for color photography throughout his career. Porter's Epilogue is a memorial to Glen Canyon under water with a new identify of Lake Powell courtesy the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. First Edition First Thus. Hard Cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Illus. by Eliot Porter Photographer. Stated First Edition. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
cxix326 pages with 81 plates 83 figures and index. Quarto 11 1/2" x 8 1/4" bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Papers by Manuel Antonio Muniz and W J McGee Primitive trephining in Peru pages 3-72 plates I-XL; J Cosmos Mindeleff The Cliff ruins of Canyon de Chelly Arizona pages 73-198 plates XLI-LXIII and figures 1-83; Cyrus Thomas Day symbols of the Maya year pages 199-265 plates LXIV-LXIX; Jesse Walter Fewkes Tusayan snake ceremonies pages 267-312 and plates LXX-LXXXI. Edited by J W Powell. List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology pages 5-6 First edition.<br />Although classified by most conventional texts John Wesley Powell always maintained that he was not an adventure or an explorer. He considered himself a scientist motivated by a desire for knowledge and to further the progress of human kind. However Powell did live a busy and active life as a military leader the first navigator of the Colorado River and director of the United States Geological Survey. His accounts from navigating the Colorado River earned him early fame. Due to his compassion toward Native Americans he was elevated to director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in which he continued until his death. His work on the Irrigation Survey for the western United States although never fully realized lead to the establishment of river gauging stations and preliminary work toward storage and utilization of river water for irrigation and prevention of floods and overflows.<br />Condition:<br />Senator John A. McDowell gift inscription to previous owner on front end paper light rubbing to back hinge corners bumped else better than very good. Government Printing Office hardcover
Indiana: Light and Life Press 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ten essays originally delivered over national radio for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Blue boards gold gilt title and author's name on cover and spine. Former owner's name in pen inside front cover and top page edge. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Full refund if not satisfied. Light and Life Press hardcover
Editions Du Renouveau Pedagogique. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Editions Du Renouveau Pedagogique unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : GRP113499920 ISBN : 0201190532 9780201190533
Univ Pr of Colorado. Collectible - Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by editor on front endpage. Univ Pr of Colorado unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Q19O-00760 ISBN : 0870810731 9780870810732
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