Report on interoceanic canals and railroads

by Charles H. Davis

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. 8vo, pp, 37, 3 ; 14 folding maps with hand colored details in red; black cloth, upper board replaced and spine crudely rebacked, with original spine laid down. Maps 1 and 5 with tears in the gutter, and map 7 with a hole at crease and iron burning around it. Light foxing throughout; spine chipped. A record of a variety of proposals made to build canals throughout South America, including the Panama Canal. Item

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