Search Results: Authors starting with B from Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books

Washington DC:: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey,, 1877.. Very Good. A large rare coastal chart issued separately. Engraving on heavy wove paper. Sheet: 42.25 x 35.25 inches. Plate mark: 40.75 x 34.5 inches. Very Good condition. Minor edge staining, minor tears. Crinkled upper right corner with small paper loss, not affecting the image, otherwise a solid, clean chart. Never folded.  This detailed coastal chart issued in 1877 by C. P. Patterson, Superintendent, verified by J.E. Hilgard, Assistant in Charge of Office was based on the 1872 Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A. D. Bache and Benjn. Peirce, Superintendents of the Survey of the Coast of the United States. Charts include: Light Houses, Variations of the Magnetic Needle, Tides from Annisquam, Salem, Boston Light and Boston U.S. Dry Dock, Sailing Directions, Lifesaving Stations designated. Coast chart No. 9 shows Boston Bay and Approaches on a scale of 1/80,000. In 1807 President Thomas… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Near Fine with original hand-coloring. Light offset to plate. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. Chip to top edge of plate. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-60.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These illustrations… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Near Fine with original hand-coloring. Light offset. . A Near Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More

Washington DC:: Washington DC, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer,, 1853-59.. First printing. Fine with original hand-coloring. . A Fine original hand-colored lithograph. Large Octavo (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Produced for the famed mid-nineteenth century Pacific Railroad Surveys: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the US government, these reports were produced to determine possible routes for transcontinental travel and contained the greatest wealth of topographical and natural history discovery of the Western United States during the nineteenth century. For the reports a natural history team of botanists, ornithologists and zoologists lead by Lt. WP Trowbridge with Dr. E. Sterling, Dr. JS Newberry, Mr. CD Anderson travelled westward to gather, preserve and document the heretofore undocumented flora, fauna and avifauna of the American West. These… Read More