Resultados de búsqueda: reports of explorations and surveys to de isaac i stevens

Washington, 1858. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. 4to, 1005 pages, worn orig. sheep, lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Rep. #799 This is the BIRDS. By Spencer F. Baird, with John Cassin and Geo. N. Lawrence. [Sitwell p. 74]. This is a text-only volume. House Exec. Doc. no. 91, Pt. 9. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 266b; Rittenhouse 442]. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512."

Washington : Thomas H. Ford, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Quarto. 76, viii, 399 pp, 54 lithographic plates, of which 8 are hand colored. ; 30 cm. Modern brown buckram cloth. Library markings. Contemporary inscription on title page to library. Tanning and offsetting to plates. <br>"A second edition of this rather mixed and confusing record was issued as 12 volumes 1855-61 .the added Vol. XII (Books 1 and 2) giving chiefly a history of a (new) transcontinental route from St. Paul to Puget Sound. Book Two has the Zoological Report." (Wood).

Washington: Beverly Tucker, [ 1856-7]. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. Fair. chromolithographs. 4to, original sheep, lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Representatives. Comprised of 5 reports by John Grubb Parke, Albert Henry Campbell, Thomas Antisell, John Torrey, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan, CALIFORNIA, p.512." Illustrated with chromolithographs.

T. Ford, Printer, Washington, 1860. Hardcover. Acceptable. Volume XII. Quarto. 358, 41 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. Spine perished. Hardcover. Ex. doc. / 36th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives, no. 56, etc. Route near the 47th and 49th parallels (concluded)

Washington: Thomas H. Ford, 1860. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. chromolithographs, b&w pls. Quartos, 358, 40; 399 pages, 21stC 3/4 calf, marbled boards, waterstains House Exec. Doc. no. 56. [Howes P3; Wheat, TRANSMISSISSIPPI, 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 261ff; Rittenhouse 442]. Vol.I has 70 chromolithographed scenes. With 3 folding maps. Vol.1 has the Report. Vol.2 has the Botany, Zoology, Ornithology, Fish, Mollusks & Crustaceans. "The plates in Book 1 are all really tinted. Book II has 8 fine colored plates of birds; 45 black & white plates of fish, animals, insects and plants -Whitman Bennett, in his PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS, p.101."