The central gold region. The grain, pastoral, and gold regions of North America. With some new views of its physical geography; and observations on the Pacific Railroad

by William Gilpin

$600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Philadelphia & St. Louis: Sower, Barnes & Co. and E. K. Woodward, 1860. 8vo, pp. 194; 6 folding maps 4 hand colored ; original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine chipped, cracked and with loss; edges rubbed, lacking front free endpaper, owner's signature on flyleaf and a couple small notes in pencil; text clean and sound and only a couple short gutter tears in the maps. A futurist history of the region, predicting that the Mississippi River

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