Reports of Explorations & Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, . . . in 1854-6. Volume VIII. General Report Upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes: Part I. Mammals
Wahington: A.O.P Nicholson, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XLVIII, 757pp, 43 plates (XVII-XXVIII, XXX-LX). Original half leather over marbled paper covered boards. First part of a fascinating survey realised through the combined efforts of the topographical engineers and a sizable contingent of the country's foremost scientists. Not since Napoleon..... More