REPORTS Of EXPLORATIONS And SURVEYS to Ascertain the Practicality of a Ship-Canal Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

by the Way of the Isthmus of Darien by Thos. Oliver Selfridge

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First edition

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. 1st edition. 263 pp of text. 14 full-page chromolithographs. 17 fold-out plates at rear. 4to. 11-3/4 x 9 . Original publisher's brown cloth boards with modern respining; gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards. Ex-lib, with stamps to eps. Overall, a VG copy. Item #30929 Even in the 1870s, the US was thinking of a canal, with an

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