Report of Explorations and Surveys … For a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made in 1854-5. Vol. VI: Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot on a Route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River limitation)

Report of Explorations and Surveys … For a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made in 1854-5. Vol. VI: Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot on a Route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River limitation)Pp. (8), 1 370, i xiii, 1 15, 1 14; 13 hand colored lithographs plates, 18 botanical plates and 10 fossil shells plates which are monochrome, with 8 folding maps & charts. Publishers original ornately blind stamped dark brown boards, with new black cloth spine, lettered in gilt, lg 4to. The volume contains a geological report, an examination of the fish, reptiles, and plants as well as longer reports on California birds and mammals. Various sections

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