1861 JORNEY to GREAT SALT LAKE CITY illustrated ANTIQUE 2 VOLUMES

Brenchley (Jules and Julius L.)

A Journey to Great Salt Lake City.
By Jules Remy and Julius Brenchly, M.A.;
With a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on the Religious Movement in the United States

2 volumes

London; 1861

 first edition in English

508 and 605 pp.

half-titles, engraved frontispieces, plates, folding map,


Publisher's embossed cloth, spines titled in gilt, untrimmed edges

 good interior condition, minor foxing, bindings worn, spine of Vol. I is damaged, lacks front endpapers, some  1877 newspaper articles glued to the pastedown , bookplates

 Size 6 1/2 by 10 1/4"

Text in English
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Remy and his companion Julius Lucius Brenchley traveled from San Francisco to Salt Lake City in the summer of 1855.
After a month's stay they left for Los Angeles, which they reached on November 29, and then returned to San Francisco.
Julius Brenchley's journey across the plains to Oregon is described in volume two.
Remy wrote thirteen letters that appeared in a French newspaper (Echo du Pacifique), he later expanded upon these and 'Voyage au pays des Mormons' was published in 1860. This translated edition was printed the following year.
The Frenchmen were fascinated by the Mormons, and much of this book is devoted to the new American religion and the first 172 pages of volume 2 are devoted to their comments on Mormonism.
"This book become one of the most consulted studies of Mormonism by Europeans who visited Utah or wrote about the Mormons during the next fifty years" - Michael Homer 'On the Way to somewhere else.'

Wagner/Camp 364:2. Flake/Draper 6867. Howes R210. Sabin 69594. Auerbach 1049. Woodward 207. Scallawagiana 59. Graff 3461
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