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

Pp. 503, 25 hand-colored plates, 25 black-and-white fine lithographic plates.  Publisher’s original ornately blind-stamped dark-brown boards, with new black cloth spine, lettered in gilt, lg 4to.  The volume contains a general report of the expedition, a report on the geology of the expedition, report on the botany of the expedition concerning pine and fir trees, and report on the zoology of the expedition concerning fishes, mammals, birds, and shells.  Various sections are by J.S. Newberry, C. Girard, W.G. Binney and S.F. Baird among others.  The text and plates are bright and clean with only the slightest hint of text browning.  Many of the color plates are beautiful scenes of the West along the expedition route.  Other color plates are of pine trees, birds, etc.