REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 12. 2 vols
by Pacific Railway Survey. Stevens, Isaac I
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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."
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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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO010833I
- Title
- REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 12. 2 vols
- Author
- Pacific Railway Survey. Stevens, Isaac I
- Illustrator
- chromolithographs, b&w pls
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First & Quarto edition
- Publisher
- Thomas H. Ford
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- railroad survey, intercontinental railroad, Isaac I. Stevens, Pacific Railway Survey, Botany, Zoology, Ornithology, Fish, Mollusks & Crustaceans,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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