Memorial Of A Whitney Praying A Grant Of Public Land To Enable Him To Construct A Railroad From Lake

by Pacific Railroad Asa Whitney

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Washington, D. C. Ritchie & Heiss, print., 1846. Octavo, pp. 1 2-10, folded map, self wrappers, sewn as issued. First edition. Issued as 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 161. Whitney's second memorial, preceded by a 4-page memorial presented in 1845 to the second session of the 28th Congress, the first to be accompanied by a map, here an untitled map of the United States reduced & engraved by O. H. Throop,

• Binding: Wrappers

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