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REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economic Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean...Vol III

A.O.P. Nicholson: Washington, DC, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #21-1197

20 full page color lithos, other illus; three folding Geological Sections/Map, 12 x 9", half leather; marbled boards, 136pp, 77pp, 127pp; 175pp, covers very worn and loose, extremities bumped and chipped, spine quite rubbed, bottom of spine chipped and torn, inner hinges cracked, old ownership bookplate of a J.W. Brown, pp toned and used with some finger soiling, some pp loose, one color plate spotted; a quite loose and well used copy. SWAF. Contains A.W. Whipple's report; Whipple, Ewbank and Turner's Report on the Indian Tribes; and, William Blake's report on the Geological Collections.

Price: $295.00