(RAILROADS) Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain

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(RAILROADS.) Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 54 maps and plans (most folding, several with tears or repairs), 174 views (most colored or tinted), 421 natural history plates (the bird plates being colored). 12 volumes in 13. Thick 4to, original 1/2 calf or publisher's cloth, moderate wear, all rebacked in uniform buckram; intermittent foxing and minor dampstaining, title page of volume V supplied in facsimile; inscriptions in first volume by Pennsylvania's Democratic congressman John Littleton Dawson. Mixed set, 33rd Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 78 and House Ex. Doc. 91. Washington, 1855-60

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Collected both for its attractive plates and important historical content.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. Complete with all listed plates; text leaves are uncollated but apparently complete except as noted.