Reports Of Explorations Surveys To Ascertain The Most Practicable Economical Route For A

by Spencer F Baird

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First edition

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 had taken his company of savants into Egypt, had the world seen

• Binding: Leather

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