[Rarebooks] FA: 1874 Panama Canal Survey with large maps & lithographs

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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"Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Practicability of a 
Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and pacific Oceans by the way of the 
Isthmus of Darien"  By Thos. Oliver Selfridge. Published by Washington 
Government Printing Office: 1874

This extremely important survey of various possible canal routes through 
Central America is illustrated with 14 highly detailed and fine full-page, 
three-color lithographs, which were prepared from photographs taken by T.H. 
O'Sullivan (T. Sinclair & Son Lithographers). The Appendix consists of a 
"Summary of work performed by the Darien expeditions of 1870-1871, and 1873 
and 17 large, folding maps titled:

1. Isthmus of Darien [37"x41"]
2. Napipi and Bojaya Rivers and their tributaries [55"x29"]
3. Napipi and Atrato Rivers, (sheet 1) [37"x33"]
4. Atrato River, (sheet 2) [16"x32"]
5. Atrato and Peranchita Rivers, from Columbia Bay to the Divide, (sheet 3) 
[33'x27.5"]
6. Columbia Bay, (Gulf of Darien) [24"x29.5"]
7. Profile of ship-canal, via the Napipi and Doguado Valleys [46"x21.5"]
8. Profile of the Napipi route, (1871) [50"x38"]
9. Tuyra and Cue Rivers, &c. [24"x38"]
10. Darien Harbor and Tuyra River [22"x29.5"]
11. Isthmus of Darien, between Caledonia Bay and Gulf of San Miguel [30"x36"]
12. Isthmus of San Blas [16"x32"]
13. Mandinga Harbor, (Gulf of San Blas) [22"x24.5]
14. Valley of the Atrato, (copy of an old Spanish map) [17.5"x23.5"]
15. Atrato River, from Vejia to Quibdo [20"x51"]
16. Routes of steamers between Cupica Bay and the Asiatic continent [29"x18"]
17. Chiri Chiri Bay [24"x30.5]

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