[Rarebooks] FS: Millard Fillmore's Copy of THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD TO CONNECT THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, 1852

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine items in our new catalog recently posted on our home 
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[FILLMORE, Millard] BARNARD, J.G. and WILLIAMS, J. J. THE ISTHMUS OF 
TEHUANTEPEC: BEING THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD TO CONNECT THE 
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, MADE BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION.... 
Millard Fillmore's Copy Signed by Him. New York: D. Appleton and 
Company, 1852. First Edition. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") bound in publisher's 
green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on the spine, 295 pages 
(errata slip tipped in between pages 294 and 295). Illustrated with 14 
tinted lithographs, one fold-out map, and a geological plated. After the 
acquisition of California and the settlement of Oregon, there was a race 
to find the fastest route to the Pacific. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is 
the narrowest point in the national territory of Mexico and prior to the 
opening of the Panama Canal was a major shipping route known simply as 
the Tehuantepec Route. SIGNED and dated "February 27, 1852" vertically 
on the front pastedown by the thirteenth President of the United States 
while in office. A few pencil markings in the margin, presumably by 
Fillmore. Slight, occasional foxing. Near Fine. (#016463)        $2,000.00

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