Report of the Explorations and Surveys … for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made in 1853-1854 Vanguard Press Publisher Place New

Vanguard Press Publisher Place New York Date Published 1959 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description A near fine copy in a very good dustjacket

all page edges in gilt

is one of the most important avenues of inquiry in human origins research

Complete sets of the Reptilia and Batrachia volume are rarely offered

There is a detailed 50 page index to each Latin genus and species

Report of the Explorations and Surveys … for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made in 1853-1854 Vanguard Press Publisher Place NewVolume II: Report upon the routes near the 32st, 38th, 39th and 41st parallels of North Latitude, from the mouth of the Kansas River, MO, to the Sevier Lake, in the Great Basin, Utah Pp. (viii), 590, 12 hand colored plates, 24 black and white fine lithographic plates, 1 folding hand colored map of route, 1 large folding hand colored geological chart. Original one half leather, four raised bands, over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers and