Title: Report of the Secretary of War Communicating Copies of all Reports of the Engineers and Other Persons, Employed to Make Explorations and Surveys...for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean... Author: ** Place: [Washington] Publisher: Date: [1854] Description: 118 pp. 3 large folding maps. (8vo) 9x5½, disbound. 33rd Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 29, Senate Issue. First Edition. Rare preliminary report on the Pacific Railroad Surveys. Includes 14 reports on the survey of the northernmost route under the direction of I.I. Stevens; 6 reports concerning the survey near the 38th parallel under the direction of Captain Gunnison; 4 reports of the survey near the 35th parallel under the direction of Lieutenant Whipple; 3 reports of the partial routes on the Pacific side under the direction of Lieutenant Williamson; 2 reports of the survey near the 32nd parallel under the direction of Lieutenant Parke. Lot Amendments Condition: Disbound; front blank leaf detached; light dampstain to fore edge; else very good. Item number: 171440
Title: Report of the Secretary of War Communicating Copies of all Reports of the Engineers and Other Persons, Employed to Make Explorations and Surveys...for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean... Author: ** Place: [Washington] Publisher: Date: [1854] Description: 118 pp. 3 large folding maps. (8vo) 9x5½, disbound. 33rd Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 29, Senate Issue. First Edition. Rare preliminary report on the Pacific Railroad Surveys. Includes 14 reports on the survey of the northernmost route under the direction of I.I. Stevens; 6 reports concerning the survey near the 38th parallel under the direction of Captain Gunnison; 4 reports of the survey near the 35th parallel under the direction of Lieutenant Whipple; 3 reports of the partial routes on the Pacific side under the direction of Lieutenant Williamson; 2 reports of the survey near the 32nd parallel under the direction of Lieutenant Parke. Lot Amendments Condition: Disbound; front blank leaf detached; light dampstain to fore edge; else very good. Item number: 171440
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