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244 ● (RAILROADS.) Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the . . .
Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 12 (of 13)
volumes, lacking volume XI. Profusion of maps, plans, view plates (most colored or tinted),
and natural history plates (the bird plates being colored). Thick 4to, most in original
publisher’s cloth, moderate wear, with the last 2 volumes in worn contemporary 1/2 calf;
intermittent foxing and dampstaining; some volumes from the library of Senator John
Renshaw Thomson of New Jersey. Mixed set, most being the Senate issue, and the last two
volumes the 36th Congress, 1st Session, House Ex. Doc. 56. Not collated.
Washington, 1855-60 [800/1,200]
Collected both for its attractive plates and important historical content. Including contributions
by Jefferson Davis and George B. McClellan, who would soon gain greater fame on opposite
sides in the Civil War. “A monumental collection of scientific information, geographical,
zoological, botanical, geological, of the still mysterious American West”—Wagner-Camp, page
462. Howes P3; Wagner-Camp 262-267.
245 ● (RAILROADS.) Rockwell, John A. Canal or Railroad between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans. 16 folding maps. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; maps crisp and fresh
but difficult to open because of binding; library label on front cover, inked library stamps
on edges and first page. 30th Congress, 2nd Session, House Report 145, bound with
5-page “Index to House Reports” as issued. Washington, 1849 [1,000/1,500]
Most notable for including the second issue of an important 1846 map by Charles Preuss in
seven sheets: “Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon.” This issue lacks the
Baltimore lithographer’s imprint, but is otherwise the same map discussed at length in Wheat’s
Transmississippi West: “Owing to its rarity . . . Preuss’s sectional map of 1846 has been insuf-
ficiently appreciated by students of Western history” (523, pages III:25-29). Sabin 72432.
246 ● (REFERENCE.) The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the
late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. 8 volumes, including the Index. 4to, publisher’s boards
(the index in publisher’s cloth), minimal wear; prices realized sheet of first volume only laid
in, partial original glassine wrappers.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966-70 [400/600]
WITH—Americana: Beginnings. A Selection from the Library of Thomas W. Streeter. 8vo,
original wrappers; one of 325. Morristown, NJ, 1952 * The Celebrated Collection of
Americana . . . Advance Program of Sales. New York: Parke-Bernet, [1966] * The Streeter
Sale Revisited. Catalogue issued by the William Reese Company, [1993].
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