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 ObstaclesBoston, 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. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 291.25 | CHF 275.5] N°. du livre 42411vous est proposé par:
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