Degrand, Peter Paul Francis - Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail-Road to San Francisco, at Their Public Meeting, Held at the U.S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849. Including an Address to the People of the U. States; Showing That P.P. F. Degrand's Plan Is the Only One, As Yet Proposed, Which Will Secure Promptly... By a Single Act of Legislation, the Construction of a Railroad to California, in the Shortest Time Allowed by Its Physical Obstacles

Boston, Dutton and Wentworth, printers, 1849. Second edition. Stitched pink paper wrappers. 24 pp. 8vo. Degrand proposal for building a railroad from St. Louis to San Francisco was "One of the earliest projects for a transcontinental railway having San Francisco as its terminus. It maintains that the plan of P. P. F. Degrand for a railroad from St. Louis to San Francisco was the only feasible scheme that had been offered," Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906, p. 183. Johnston's Railway Economics: A Collective Catalogue of Books in Fourteen American Libraries locates only the 2nd through 4th editions. Sabin 19303 (4th. ed.). Graff 3365. Railway Economics p.284. A very good copy, mail fold, minor edgewear and tear to wrappers, rear wrapper detached and front wrapper starting, tiny deaccession stamp at foot of last leaf.

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