Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(RAILROAD.) Whitney, Asa. A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific. 2 folding maps. viii, 112 pages. 8vo, publisher's wrappers, creased and chipped; minor foxing and toning; library stamp on the front wrapper. New York: George W. Wood, 1849

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"Whitney was the first to bombard Congress with plans for a transcontinental railway. His efforts culminated in this matured proposal"--Howes W383; Eberstadt 127:392.