Jun 15, 2006 - Sale 2083

Sale 2083 - Lot 402

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(RAILROAD--TRANSCONTINENTAL.) United States. Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Volumes 1-3, 5, 12 (parts 1 and 2), plus a second copy of volume 3. Together, 7 volumes. Hundreds of plates, most tinted lithographs, plus charts, maps, and natural history plates. 4to, original bindings, defective; volume 3 partially dampstained; bird plates in volume 12, part 2, toned and offset; all volumes (excepting the second copy of volume 3) ex-library, with library stamps on the versos of every plate and map (not visible on recto). Senate issues. Washington, 1855-60