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Washington, 1858. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. 4to, 1005 pages, worn orig. sheep, lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Rep. #799 This is the BIRDS. By Spencer F. Baird, with John Cassin and Geo. N. Lawrence. [Sitwell p. 74]. This is a text-only volume. House Exec. Doc. no. 91, Pt. 9. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 266b; Rittenhouse 442]. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512."
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REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 9, Part II
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean: Volume XII, Book II
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Washington : Thomas H. Ford, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Quarto. 76, viii, 399 pp, 54 lithographic plates, of which 8 are hand colored. ; 30 cm. Modern brown buckram cloth. Library markings. Contemporary inscription on title page to library. Tanning and offsetting to plates. <br>"A second edition of this rather mixed and confusing record was issued as 12 volumes 1855-61 .the added Vol. XII (Books 1 and 2) giving chiefly a history of a (new) transcontinental route from St. Paul to Puget Sound. Book Two has the Zoological Report." (Wood).
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean: Volume XII, Book II
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Thomas H. Ford, Printer, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Non circulating ex University of California, Berkeley reference library book with some library markings. No DJ. Plate on front paste-down, Entomology Library of University of California, gift of Frank R. Cole. Foxing of end papers. Marbled boards with leather spine, heavy edge and spine wear. Boards are loose at hinges, but still attached. Weak binding, but pages are attached and intact. Sections include: Part II, Botanical Report, 76 pages, plus 6 full-page grayscale botanical drawings; Part III, Zoological Report, 389 pages, with numerous full-page grayscale and some colored drawings. House Documents No. 56, of 36th Congress.
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REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. VII
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Washington: Beverly Tucker, [ 1856-7]. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. Fair. chromolithographs. 4to, original sheep, lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Representatives. Comprised of 5 reports by John Grubb Parke, Albert Henry Campbell, Thomas Antisell, John Torrey, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512." Illustrated with chromolithographs.
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / Volume 12, Book 1
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T. Ford, Printer, Washington, 1860. Hardcover. Acceptable. Volume XII. Quarto. 358, 41 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. Spine perished. Hardcover. Ex. doc. / 36th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives, no. 56, etc. Route near the 47th and 49th parallels (concluded)
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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 1853-56, According to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. Volume XI, Book I. [General Report]
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, 358 pages and appendices at rear [41], this being Vol 12. Book 1. Narrative and Final Report of Explorations for a route for a Pacific Railroad, near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels of north latitude, from St. Paul to Puget Sound, complete with 72 plates comprising 70 lithographic colour plates, 1 sheet of profiles and 1 large folding map from Milk River to Crossing of Columbia loose at rear
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REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 12. 2 vols
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Washington: Thomas H. Ford, 1860. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. chromolithographs, b&w pls. Quartos, 358, 40; 399 pages, 21stC 3/4 calf, marbled boards, waterstains House Exec. Doc. no. 56. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 261ff; Rittenhouse 442]. Vol.I has 70 chromolithographed scenes. With 3 folding maps. Vol.1 has the Report. Vol.2 has the Botany, Zoology, Ornithology, Fish, Mollusks & Crustaceans. "The plates in Book 1 are all really tinted. Book II has 8 fine colored plates of birds; 45 black & white plates of fish, animals, insects and plants -Whitman Bennett, in his PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS, p.101."
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