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(RAILROADS.) Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the . . . Routefor a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 600 maps, plans, view plates and natural history plates. 13 volumes (mix of Senate and House issues). 4to, uniform modern cloth with gilt morocco spine labels; intermittent foxing and minor wear; various ownership markings with Volume XI bearing inked "Library of Hannibal Hamlin" stamps on verso of maps. Washington, 1855-1860
Collected both for its attractive plates and important historical content. Including contributions by Jefferson Davis and George B. McClellan, who would soon gain greater fame on opposite sides in the Civil War. "A monumental collection of scientific information, geographical, zoological, botanical, geological, of the still mysterious American West"--Wagner-Camp, page 462. Howes P3; Wagner-Camp 262-267.
