REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN 1853-4, ACCORDING TO ACTS OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3, 1853, MAY 31, 1854, AND AUGUST 5, 1854. VOLUME II.

E.G. Beckwith, F.W. Lander, John Pope, John G. Parke, and W.H. Emory

Edité par A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, Washington, 1855

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Large volume with ribbed leather spine and leather corners; marbled boards. 30 cm x 24 cm. No ownership markings; no names; no bookplate; no library stamps. Contents clean, tight, unmarked. Illustrated with colored lithographs, numerous full-page botanical and geological prints. Charts, graphs, fold-out maps. Reports on The Route near the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Parallels Explored; The Route near the Forty-first Parallel; A Reconnaissance from Puget Sound, via South Pass, to the Mississippi River; The Portion of the Route near the Thirty-second Parallel lying between the Red River and the Rio Grande; The Portion of the Route near the Thirty-second Parallel, lying between the Rio Grande and Pimas Village, on the Gila; Extract from Report of a Military Reconnaissance made of the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-second Parallel, lying between the Mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers. A thick volume with several hundred pages; each report is separately paginated. Information added: FOLD-OUT GEOLOGICAL MAP FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE RIO GRANDE; FOLD-OUT GEOLOGICAL SECTION FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE RIO GRANDE; REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS FOR A ROUTE FOR THE PACIFIC RAILROAD FROM THE MOUTH OF THE KANSAS RIVER MO TO THE SEVIER LAKE IN THE GREAT BASIN. REPORT BY LIEUT. E.G. BECKWITH; REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS FOR A ROUTE FOR THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, OF THE LINE OF THE FORTY-FIRST PARALLEL OF NORTH LATITUDE. BY LIEUT. E.G. BECKWITH. 1854; REPORT OF THE BOTANY OF THE EXPEDITION: BY JOHN TORREY AND ASA GRAY; SYNOPSIS OF A REPORT OF THE RECONNAISSANCE OF A RAILROAD ROUTE FROM PUGET SOUND VIA SOUTH PASS TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BY FRED. W. LANDER. 1856; REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE ROUTE, NEAR THE THIRTY-SECOND PARALLEL: PREPARED FROM THE COLLECTION AND NOTES OF CAPT. POPE, BY WILLIAM P. BLAKE. 1856.

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• Titre: REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN 1853-4, ACCORDING TO ACTS OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3, 1853, MAY 31, 1854, AND AUGUST 5, 1854. VOLUME II.
• Éditeur: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, Washington
• Date de parution: 1855
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Transportation
  • History: United States
  • Exploration