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1860 RAILROAD Exploration Surveys Plants Insects Mammal
1860 RAILROAD Exploration Surveys Plants Insects Mammal
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1860 RAILROAD Exploration Surveys Plants Insects Mammals Birds Reptiles Fish



Beginning in 1855, the United States Congress published reports and surveys of certain railroad routes from the Mississippi River westward to the Pacific. This 12th volume from the ‘Reports of Exploration’ represents work carried out on the route near the 47th and 49th parallels. It is comprised of two parts.



The first is the Botanical Report explored by I. I. Stevens, governor of Washington Territory in 1853-'55. This second book is in two parts:

Report on the Botany of the Route

Catalogue of Plants collected east of the Rocky Mountains

Catalogue of Plants collected in Washington territory



The second is the Zoological Report. It is in seven parts:

Report on the Insects collected

Report on the Mammals collected

Report on the birds collected

Reptiles collected

Fishes collected

Mollusca collected

Crustacea collected



This edition includes numerous black and white plates as well as a few full color plates.



Per Larned,

“Narrative reports of many officers on various routes, giving much information concerning the western country. The publication of the reports being chiefly in the form of original journals, kept day by day, gives them a certain accuracy that might have been lost had the writers more frequently indulged in general descriptions.





Item number: #7677

Price: $550



US Congress



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, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854.



Washington: Thomas H. Ford, Printer, 1860. First edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

Volume XII Book II

399, [ixxv, plates]

52 unnumbered leaves of plates

References: Wagner-Camp 267; Graff 4435; Larned 421;

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~12in X 9.5in (30cm x 23.5cm)



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