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[SCIENCE/ZOOLOGY] REPORTS OF EXPLORATION AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. VOLUME X. Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1859. 400 + 27 + 97 + 13 pp. plus 28 hand colored plates, and 94 b/w plates. 4to., brown cloth. As is. Binding poor, block split at pp. 8-9 of 27 pp. report. Spine chipped, cloth split at joints. Moderate to light foxing to text, although plates are in excellent condition. Contents: Parts III, IV. General Report upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Zoological portion of the reports by Lieut. E. G. Beckwith...upon the Route near the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Parallels/Nos. 2-5 of Part IV of the Report by Lieut. A. W. Whipple...upon the route near the Thirty- Fifth Parallel/Zoological portion of the Report by Lieut. J. G. Parke...upon the route near the Thirty-Second Parallel, from the Rio Grande to the Pimas Villages/Part IV of the Report by Lieut. R. S. Williamson...upon routes to California to connect with routes near the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Second Parallels/No. 4 of Part IV of the Report by Lieut. Henry L. Abbot...upon the routes in Oregon and California, explored by parties under the command of Lieut. R. S. Williamson...in 1855. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of RAILROAD : REPORTS OF EXPLORATION AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, first editions, livres anciens, livres rares and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |