Piercy, Frederick Hawkins. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley - the original 1855 published copy.

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley, illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy including Views of Nauvoo and the Ruins of the Temple.... Edited by james Linforth. Liverpool: published by Franklin D. Richards, 36 Islington MDCCCLV. This is the original 1855 published copy. WHAT OTHERS SAY -"Few painters of the American West have had their pictures reproduced as often as Frederick Hawkins Piercy. One sees portraits and landscapes taken from his Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (Liverpool, 1855) in anthologies of the gold rush, general histories of the area, and in countless books on Mormonism. The original volume, however, with its gentle, factual narrative of a voyage...sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans, a steamboat ride up the Mississippi,and an overland journey by wagon to the Mormon Zone, has beome rare." "The book was at first issued in fifteen separately stitched parts, in separate