Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
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Publisher:
Washington [D.C. ]: A.O.P. Nicholson, printer
Published:
01/1857
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15301244614
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Seller's Description:
Fair. Volume VI. Routes in Oregon and California. Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Chipping to spine with loss. Foxing. 35 of 50 plates: 3 of 13 color lithographic views in the General Report 5 Geology plates (1 color), 14 of 16 Botany plates (8 color lithographs), 11 fish plates, 2 hand-colored plates of birds, lacking the last 3 mammal plates. Vol VI: 33d Cong., 2d Sess., Senate Ex. Doc. 78. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Publisher:
Washington [D.C. ]: A.O.P. Nicholson, printer
Published:
01/1857
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13854801919
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Very Good. 2 Volumes, ill. hand colored plates. Volumes VI and VII only. Bound in publishers black cloth. Gilt spine. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to spine Volume VII. Fading to gilt on spine. Light, scattered spotting. Wagner-Camp 264a, 265. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of the US.
Publisher:
Washington [D.C. ]: A.O.P. Nicholson, printer
Published:
1859
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15951834318
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Very Good. [Superior copy] Volume X. Reptiles and fishes of the several routes; Zoological reports on routes near 38th and 39th, 41st 35th and 32d parallels; On routes in California to connect with those near 35th and 32d parallels; Reptiles of routes in California and Oregon. Quarto. 30 cm. Bound in contemporary marbled boards, modern leather spine. Pages are remarkably clean and unmarked. A few plates have minor offsetting, but besides a near fine copy. Hand-colored zoological plates and many in black and white. The reports of the Pacific railroad surveys were prepared under the direct supervision of the Engineer Department. The vols. dealing with the soil, climate, geology, botany and zoology of the regions surveyed were edited and revised by Professors Henry and Baird of the Smithsonian institution--cf. Ingersoll, History of the War Department, 1879, p. 292-293. Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House), 33rd Congress, 2nd Session, no. 91. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.