Selfridge, Thos. Oliver - REPORTS Of EXPLORATIONS And SURVEYS to Ascertain the Practicality of a Ship-Canal Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the Way of the Isthmus of Darien

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. 1st edition. Original publisher's brown cloth boards with modern respining; gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards. 263 pp of text. 14 full-page chromolithographs. 17 fold-out plates at rear. 4to. Ex-lib, with stamps to eps. A VG copy. Even in the 1870s, the US was thinking of a canal, with an initial survey here documented- Panama was selected, though not necessarily because it was the better site. For more information, and a good general account of the making of the Canal, read David McCullough's THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS.

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