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Report of Explorations in California for Railroad
Report of Explorations in California for Railroad
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Heading: (Pacific Railroad Reports)
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Title: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for A Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4. Volume V
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Publisher:A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer
Date Published: 1856
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illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs, 3 color maps and numerous b&w maps and botanical plates. (4to) 29x22.5 cm (11¼x8¾") original calf-backed marble paper-covered boards. House of Representatives issue.

Volume V comprises Lieutenant R.S. Williamson's report to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, the Report of Explorations in California for Railroad Routes, to Connect with The Routes Near the 35th and 32nd Parallels of North Latitude. Includes a geological report by W.P. Blake, geologist and mineralogist of the expedition. Appendices include A Notice of the Fossil Fishes, Description of the Fossil Shells, and illustrated natural history accounts of plants and animals encountered on the expedition. Institutional rubber stamp on title page.

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Binding somewhat rubbed and worn, chips to paper covering boards, corners bumped; a few plates detached and laid in, a couple plates inserted at variance with illustrations table, foxing to plates; about very good.
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