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Condition: New. pp. 126.

Condition: New. pp. 126.

Condition: New. pp. 126.

Condition: New. pp. 126.

Condition: New. pp. 126.

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Condition: New. Klappentext A Project For A Railroad To The Pacific is a book written by Asa Whitney in 1849. The book presents a detailed plan for the construction of a transcontinental railroad from the eastern coast of the United States to the Pac.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - ''A Project For A Railroad To The Pacific'' is a book written by Asa Whitney in 1849. The book presents a detailed plan for the construction of a transcontinental railroad from the eastern coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. Whitney, a businessman and entrepreneur, was a strong advocate for the construction of a railroad that would connect the two coasts of the country, and he spent several years lobbying the government and private investors to support his vision. In the book, Whitney provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic, political, and social benefits that a transcontinental railroad would bring to the United States. He argues that such a railroad would open up new markets for American goods, facilitate the settlement of the western territories, and strengthen the country's national unity. Whitney also provides detailed information on the proposed route of the railroad, including the topography, climate, and natural resources of the regions it would pass through.Overall, ''A Project For A Railroad To The Pacific'' is an important historical document that sheds light on the early efforts to build a transcontinental railroad in the United States. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of American transportation and infrastructure development.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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first edition 249pp ills.VG+ (black cloth,sl.soiled,edges sl.soiled,sl.bowed) in VG d/w (mod.soiled and sl.sunned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.).

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 132.

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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 80. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1845 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 80.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 138. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1851 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 138.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. First Printing with US map. Howes B-744. Referring to The Pacific Railroad Question/Whitney's Proposals for the Transcontinental Railway. Softcover. Good Plus. Paper wraps; 51pp.; with one map; two unobtrusive stamps (Mercantile Library New York); quarter size chip to edge of page 1,2; light toning to pages; map is complete, and intact, although cleanly torn in two parts. Uncommonly found with map.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Original wraps bound in heavy green cloth. Small library stamps to front endpages and title page, else unmarked, bright, and firmly bound.

Octavo, pp. [1] 2-10, folded map, self wrappers, sewn as issued. First edition. Issued as 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 161. Whitney's second memorial, preceded by a 4-page memorial presented in 1845 to the second session of the 28th Congress, the first to be accompanied by a map, here an untitled map of the United States "reduced & engraved by O. H. Throop, Wn. D. C.," showing finished, unfinished and proposed railroads. Only part of Whitney's proposed route to Pacific is projected: extending from Prairie Du Chien to the Idaho border. This is one of the earliest maps to show a proposed transcontinental railroad. The chief early promoter of an American transcontinental railroad was "Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific. In January 1845 he petitioned Congress for a charter and grant of a sixty-mile strip through the public domain to help finance construction. Whitney suggested the use of Irish and German immigrant labor, which was in great abundance at the time. Wages were to be paid in land, thus ensuring that there would be settlers along the route to supply produce to and become patrons of the completed line. The failure of Congress to act on Whitney's proposal was mainly due to the vigorous opposition of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, who favored a western route originating at St. Louis. Although Congress failed to sanction his plan, Whitney made the Pacific railroad one of the great public issues of the day. The acquisition of California following the Mexican War opened the way for other routes to the coast. The discovery of gold, the settlement of the frontier, and the success of the eastern railroads increased interest in building a railroad to the Pacific." - Library of Congress, Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900, Articles and Essays. Wheat Transmississippi West III, p. 187 (note). Some light tanning and a couple of mild fox marks, but an excellent copy. (#164920).

Octavo, pp. [1] 2-10, folded map, self wrappers, sewn as issued. First edition. Issued as 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 161. Whitney's second memorial, preceded by a 4-page memorial presented in 1845 to the second session of the 28th Congress, the first to be accompanied by a map, here an untitled map of the United States "reduced & engraved by O. H. Throop, Wn. D. C.," showing finished, unfinished and proposed railroads. Only part of Whitney's proposed route to Pacific is projected: extending from Prairie Du Chien to the Idaho border. This is one of the earliest maps to show a proposed transcontinental railroad. The chief early promoter of an American transcontinental railroad was "Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific. In January 1845 he petitioned Congress for a charter and grant of a sixty-mile strip through the public domain to help finance construction. Whitney suggested the use of Irish and German immigrant labor, which was in great abundance at the time. Wages were to be paid in land, thus ensuring that there would be settlers along the route to supply produce to and become patrons of the completed line. The failure of Congress to act on Whitney's proposal was mainly due to the vigorous opposition of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, who favored a western route originating at St. Louis. Although Congress failed to sanction his plan, Whitney made the Pacific railroad one of the great public issues of the day. The acquisition of California following the Mexican War opened the way for other routes to the coast. The discovery of gold, the settlement of the frontier, and the success of the eastern railroads increased interest in building a railroad to the Pacific." - Library of Congress, Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900, Articles and Essays. Wheat Transmississippi West III, p. 187 (note). Some scattered foxing to the map, but an excellent copy. (#164486).

Octavo, pp. [1] 2-117 [118: blank] two folded maps, modern binding of quarter leather and marbled boards with leather title label on spine panel. First edition. Issued as 31st Congress, 1st Session, Ho. of Reps. Rep. No. 140. A lengthy, favorable report, with page after page of mind-numbing statistics and financial projections of world trade, by the Committee on Roads and Canals, about the benefits to the nation if Whitney's railroad proposal became a reality, which would, among other things, "make the United States the centre and axle of the commerce of the world ." Accompanied by two maps, the first an untitled map of the world that "shows the position of our Continent as compared with Europe and Africa on one side, and Asia on the other, placing us in the centre," lithographed by Miller's Lith., 140 Pearl St., N. Y., which "was prepared by Mr. Whitney for Mr. Breese's Report to the Senate, U.S. 29 Congress." The second map, also not titled, is a detailed map showing four proposed transcontinental routes: the Northern Route, the Southern Route, the Galveston Route, and the St. Louis Route. The chief early promoter of an American transcontinental railroad was "Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific. In January 1845 he petitioned Congress for a charter and grant of a sixty-mile strip through the public domain to help finance construction. Whitney suggested the use of Irish and German immigrant labor, which was in great abundance at the time. Wages were to be paid in land, thus ensuring that there would be settlers along the route to supply produce to and become patrons of the completed line. The failure of Congress to act on Whitney's proposal was mainly due to the vigorous opposition of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, who favored a western route originating at St. Louis. Although Congress failed to sanction his plan, Whitney made the Pacific railroad one of the great public issues of the day. The acquisition of California following the Mexican War opened the way for other routes to the coast. The discovery of gold, the settlement of the frontier, and the success of the eastern railroads increased interest in building a railroad to the Pacific." - Library of Congress, Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900, Articles and Essays. Some tanning to the first map, but an excellent copy. (#164919).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume 1 only; Uniform with the Publications of the) Geological Survey of California, J. D. Whitney, State Geologist 26.5 x 19 cm, xx, 628 pp., list of names of those who supported publication including Leland Stanford, Introduction (by Whitney, Cambridge, Mass., April 15, 1876), Analytical Artificial Key?, Synoptical Key to the Orders, &c. (page 1) Botany of California, list of species in taxonomic order to page 622, index. Original blind stamped and gilt decorated green cloth with beautiful bright gilt cactus flower on front cover labeled "E Spinis Flos" and large insignia in the thick gilding seal "Geological Survey of California", "Instituted MDCCCLX." on back, solidly bound with plain reddish brown end papers, bumped corners and minor rubbing, end papers have some folds and dust staining on back. Ex library with large paper label of "Library Regulations of the Geological Society" on front fixed end paper, blind stamp on title page of "Geological Society of London Burlington House", rubber stamps on a few other pages. Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In the original brown, printed paper wrappers. _____ Inscribed at the top forecorner "from the Author." _____ Bound up long ago into pale blue cloth covers. _____ With the book label of "Frank H. Lamb's Library of the Frontier" on the front pastedown. _____ Whitney's seven chapter report occupies the first 42 pages. _____ The remaining 70 pages are the appendices of supporting documents and resolutions. _____ Retains both maps, frequently missing. _____ No. 1 (16 x 22.25") is a map of the world depicting the US as the bridge between Europe and Asia. _____ No. 2 (15.25 x 20") shows the US with the proposed major rail road lines across the western half of the nation. _____ The northern most links the Mississippi River to Puget Sound. _____ This splits at Prairie du Chien to reach Salt Lake and San Francisco. _____ Another starts runs from St. Louis to Independence then southwest across present-day Kansas to Santa Fe. _____ The southern route runs from Memphis to Santa Fe and then San Diego. _____ _____ "Chief promoter of a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney, a New York Merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific . Whitney suggested the use of Irish and German immigrant labor, which was in great abundance a the time. _____ [This book] was accompanied by an outline map of North America which shows the route of his railroad from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, across the Rocky Mountains north of South Pass. _____ An alternative route to the south of the pass joined the main line at the Salmon River and continued to Puget Sound. _____ Proposed lines also extended from St. Louis to San Francisco and from Independence, Missouri [through Kansas] to New Mexico and the Arkansas River. _____ This is one of the earliest promotional maps . Whitney made the Pacific railroad one of the great public issues of the day. " --Modelski / Railroad Maps of North America / p. xiii ------------------ "Whitney was the first to lay plans of a transcontinental railroad before Congress. _____ He began his labors in 1841. _____ With the advent of the great immigration to California following the gold rush discovery in 1848, Whitney changed his original memorial for a railroad to the Columbia river mouth, to either the Columbia river or San Francisco as a western terminus. _____ " --Cowan. 1933 p. 680 ------------------ Graff 4642 ------------- Wheat. Maps=V. 3. p.187.659 ___ Wagner-Camp. supp=p.75. note _____ Howes.3=W-383 _____ Cowan. 914=p. 248 _____ Smith. NW=10963 _____ Reese.Best=114 _____.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 20 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 20.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1851 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 11 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.