REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 2
by Pacific Railway Survey
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Washington: Beverly Tucker, [ 1855]. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. fair. chromolithographs. 4to, 128,132,45,185 pages, orig. sheep, lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Rep. #792.
Comprised of 7 reports, each paginated separately, by J. W. Gunnison, Edw. Beckwith, F. W. Lander, John Pope, Wm. P. Blake. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512." Chromolithographs. Also John Grubb Parke, Wm. H. Emory. House Exec. Doc. no. 91, Pt. 792. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 262a: nos. 1-7]. Twelve chromolithographs, 24 botanical and geological lithographs, 2 folding maps in pt. 5, lacks four maps and title-page in pt.1. Part 1 has a semicircular stain on the lower margin, affecting the chromos.
Comprised of 7 reports, each paginated separately, by J. W. Gunnison, Edw. Beckwith, F. W. Lander, John Pope, Wm. P. Blake. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512." Chromolithographs. Also John Grubb Parke, Wm. H. Emory. House Exec. Doc. no. 91, Pt. 792. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 262a: nos. 1-7]. Twelve chromolithographs, 24 botanical and geological lithographs, 2 folding maps in pt. 5, lacks four maps and title-page in pt.1. Part 1 has a semicircular stain on the lower margin, affecting the chromos.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO015981I
- Title
- REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad. Vol. 2
- Author
- Pacific Railway Survey
- Illustrator
- chromolithographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First & Quarto edition
- Publisher
- Beverly Tucker
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- [ 1855]
- Keywords
- railroad, railroad survey, intercontinental railroad, Isaac I. Stevens, Pacific Railway Survey, California,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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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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