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Rare Pacific Railroad Report Volume 12, Book 1 & 2

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Rare Pacific Railroad Report Volume 12, Book 1 & 2

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Explorations for a Route For a Pacific Railroad. A rare two book set of Volume 12 (XII), Reports, Explorations and Surveys from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-5, 36th Congress 1st Session. Washington: Thomas H. Ford, Printer, 1860. Illustrated with chromolithograph plates, 2 large folding maps, 1 folding profile, landscape lithographs, hand-colored ornithological plates, and lithographs of botanical and zoological specimens. Contents of Book I: Narrative of 1853 in 18 chapters. Contents of Book II: in two parts. Parts 2 and 3 of the narrative and final report by Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, upon the route near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels. CONDITION NOTES: Losses to bindings, loose pages, water and mildew stains, and foxing throughout. Some tears to pages and maps.