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Hardcover. Condición: VG+. With 30 Original Photographs by A. J. Russell Hayden went overland by train from Cheyenne to Salt Lake City. He intended this book as a guide to the geology along the route. According to an inscription by James Stevenson. Quarto. Original half morocco and cloth, spine in five compartments, second and fourth lettered, others with gilt decoration, all edges gilt. (Original spine expertly rebacked.) viii, 150, [2] pages. With 30 mounted albumen photographs by A. J. Russell (toning and occasional spotting to prints; slight warping to mounts). Overall the photographs are very clean and nice. With 30 Original Photographs by A. J. Russell Hayden went overland by train from Cheyenne to Salt Lake City. He intended this book as a guide to the geology along the route. According to an inscription by James Stevenson in the example described in To Delight the Eye, only fifty copies of this book were issued. Stevenson may have had some inside knowledge, as he worked with Hayden on the U.S. Geological Survey, but this is the only citation we have found that indicates such a small edition. However, such works illustrated with original photographs were rarely issued in great numbers due to the great expense in materials and labor to create such books. The photographs are as follows: Moore's Lake. Head of Bear River, Uintah Mountains. Granite Rock. Buford Station, Laramie Mountains. Skull Rock. (Granite) - Sherman Station, Laramie Mountains. Malloy's Cut - Sherman Station, Laramie Range. Dial Rock - Red Buttes, Laramie Plains. Laramie Valley - From Sheephead Mountains. Snow and timber line - Medicine Bow Mountains. High Bluffs - Black Buttes. Bitter Creek Valley - near Green River. Burning Rock Cut - Green River Valley Citadel Rock - Green River Valley Castle Rock - Green River Valley. Church Buttes - near Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory. Lake at the head of Bear River, Uintah Mountains. Conglomerate Peaks of Echo. Sentinel Rock - Echo Ca on. Hanging Rock - Echo Ca on. Coalville - Weber Valley, Utah. Thousand Mile Tree. Wilhelmina's Pass - Distant view of serrated rocks or Devil's Slide, Weber Ca on, Utah. Serrated Rocks or Devil's Slide (near view) - Weber Ca on, Utah. Tunnel No. 3 - Weber Ca on, Utah. Devil's Gate (from below) - Weber Ca on. Wasatch Mountains. City Creek Ca on - Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake Valley. Wasatch Ranch of Rocky Mountains - From Brigham Young's woolen mills. Salt Lake City - Camp Douglas and Wasatch Mountains in background. Great Mormon Tabernacle - Salt Lake City. Trestle work - Promontory Point, Salt Lake City. Summit of Sierra Nevada - Snow sheds in foreground, Donner Lake in the distance, Central Pacific, R.R. Hydraulic Gold Mining - near Dutch Flat, California, C.P.R.R. Book.…