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BELL, WILLIAM, New Tracks in North America . A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8.
London:, Chapman & Hall,, 1869. First edition. The true first that does not include appendix D, the report of Powell's cruise through the Grand Canyon. illus. with 24 plates, mostly tinted lithographs, woodcuts on titles and in text, colored maps, including large folded frontis. map. Appendix A, Botany of the Region Along the Route of the Kansas Pacific Railway; Appendix B, Routes. Tables of Distances and Elevations East of the Rio Grande; Appendix C, Photography. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2. 3/4 brown calf over marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. Red and black leather labels on spine with gilt lettering and decorations. Near Fine, attractive set with corners slightly bumped. An interesting and very important work concerning California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Sonora, Salt Lake City. Howes, USiana, B330, Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, p.45, Graff 246, Flake, A Mormon Bibliography, 393, Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 114.
Offered for US$ 1400.00 by: Sun Mountain Books - Book number: 1245
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