Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Custom, and Prospects of the Latter-Day Saints. From Personal Observation during a Six Months' Residence at Great Salt Lake City
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. 347pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Original brown cloth with the title and bands gilt on backstrip and decorative blind stamping to boards. About very good. Corners of boards rubbed with the backstrip's crown bumped and nicked. Former owner, Peleg Emory Aldrich, has signed and dated this on the front free endsheet in the year of publication. with marginalia in pencil sporadically throughout, and the entirety of the rear free endsheets. Aldrich (1813-1895) was a teacher, politician, lawyer, and Massachusetts Superior Court Judge. Signed again on the title page by another former owner. Item #10757
Benjamin Ferris (1802-1891) served in the (federally installed) Utah Territorial government in 1852-53. "In the early part of the summer of 1852 I was solicited to discharge the duties of Secretary of the Territory of Utah. A Curiosity, long cherished, to visit a portion of the world about which many marvelous accounts had been given, induced me to accept the vacant post. The result has been a six months residence in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, embracing the severe winter of 1852-3." - from the Preface. Flake/Draper 3328. Howes F98. Wagner/Camp 238b1.
Price: $125.00