[Henry W[ood] Elliott, illustrator]. F[erdinand] V[andeveer] Hayden. Profiles, Sections and Other Illustrations, Designed to Accompany the Final Report of the Chief Geologist of the Survey and Sketched under His Directions...Under Authority of the Secretary of the Interior. New York: Julius Bien, 1872. First edition, containing Henry Wood Elliott's art work for the Hayden Survey, most of which was published nowhere else. Limited to 100 copies. Large quarto (approximately 11.75 x 9.25 inches; 297 x 235 mm.). [2, title (verso blank)], [2, "Prefatory Note"] pages. Sixty-five photolithographic plates with multiple profiles per sheet (274 profiles, sections, and vignettes total), including twenty-three double-page, eleven folding (three on thin paper and eight on thick paper), and thirty-one single-page plates. Many signed in image "H. W. E." and dated. Double-page and folding plates mounted on guards. At head of title: "Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist in Charge."

Publisher's green pebble-grain cloth. Covers with triple blind fillet border; front cover lettered in gilt; bright yellow coated endpapers. Binding rubbed, with a few scuff marks and small areas of surface loss; a few areas of cloth blistered; boards exposed at corners and board edges; corners bumped. Cloth on spine blistered, with a short split; foot of spine faded with a few tiny splits and tears; loss of about one-eighth-inch at head of spine; front joint starting. Front hinge expertly renewed; slight vertical blistering to front pastedown, affecting front free endpaper and flyleaf, title, and preface leaf; a bit of biopredation at top edge of front endpapers and flyleaf; front free endpaper creased at lower corner, with tiny tear at lower edge; endpapers browned slightly at edges. Mostly marginal dampstaining throughout, sometimes just into text area, but rarely into an image. Plates XXIX, XXX, and XXXI on thin paper, which is browned slightly, with some edge chipping. Short (three-quarter-inch) tear to lower gutter of last four plates (LXII, LXIII, LXIV, and LXV), neatly repaired with tape. Rear hinge cracking between last plate and rear flyleaf. Book label removed from front pastedown; ink accession number ("3639") at foot of "Prefatory Note" leaf. Overall, a very good copy of this extremely scarce work. Only one copy has sold at auction in the last forty years.

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911), General Publications P94, page 469: ("Originally intended to illustrate v. 4 of quarto series of reports, but never thus used. Limited edition of 100 copies issued"). Schmeckebier, Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler Surveys, page 32, Unclassified Publications 3.