[MORMONS]. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1862. 8vo. Illustrated with engraved plates and intertextual illustrations, with folding map and plan. 574, [2, ads] pp. Publisher's full brown cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine stamped in gilt.

Rebacked preserving the original spine, recornered in brown morocco, new endleaves, text and plates toned, soiled, edgeworn, occasional creasing, pencil notations, the first 120 pages or so, have a hole or dent at lower inner corner. Bookplate of J. Eastman Hatch and early ownership signature on front blank. Fair. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF BURTON'S RECORD OF HIS TRAVELS IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. Burton admired the Mormons, and wrote about them sympathetically.