US Senate. Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-third Congress. Part III., Illustrations belonging to Reports accompanying the Message. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1854. [11742]
Sometime rebound in brown buckram, gilt titles to spine, remnants of old paper label at base, library stamps & bookplate on the end papers, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. The book consists of one leaf of text (title page and table of contents) and a large number of folding charts. Title page torn at top and foxed. 37 (of 45) folding maps/charts vary in condition, most have some splits at the folds; list below. Good. Hardcover.
Here is a list of what is present:
G Sketch of the Public Surveys in Michigan (tears at folds)
A1 Arkansas
A Plan exhibiting the state of the Surveys in the State of Florida
(No. 2.) Sketch of the Public Surveys in Iowa (old repair in a top fold, lacking a thin line of material)
Chart showing corrected survey lines at the borders of the Nebraska and Kansas Territories
Small chart, Plat & Dimensions, DC, Pennsylvania Avenue circle
Diagram of the National Hospital building
Oswego Harbor (fold splits, needs repair)
Sketch of the Entrance of Sodus Bay, Cayuga County [NY]
Sodus Bay, Wayne Co., NY
Chart of Piers at the Mouth of the Genesee River, NY
Chart of Soundings Oak Orchard Creek, NY
Map of Buffalo Harbor, NY, Soundings (small chip right margin)
Chart of West End of Erie Harbor (splits in folds)
West End, Erie, chart of soundings
East End, Erie, chart of soundings (in two pieces)
Conneaut Harbor, Ohio (torn at fold)
From Captain Stansbury's Survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio (small sheet)
Narrow folding plate not identified, "Breach of 1852"
Survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, soundings (in two pieces)
Sketch of the Harbor of Black River showing th extend of Repairs made in 1853-4 (almost in two pieces)
Sketch of Vermillion Harbor, soundings, (fold torn)
Sketch of Huron Harbour, large, (torn folds)
Sketch of Monroe Harbor (very good)
Harbor of Manitowoc, Wis. Includes town lots on Seventh, Sicth, and Lake Streets, crossed by Quay, Franklin, Jay, and Washington Streets (split at fold)
Harbor of Debuque, includes some city streets (splits at folds)
Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin (short splits)
Entrance to Kenosha harbor, Soundings in feet and inches
Plan of Racine Harbor, old repair
Re-Examination of the Outlet of the South Channel of the River St. Clair (partial split in one fold)
Mouth of Galien River, Michigan, old repair, quarter-size hole in center
Grand River Harbor, Ohio, shows some streets, (split at bottom fold)
Plan and Section of North Cut, Milwaukee No. 2.
Map of the General Government Roads in the Territory of Minnesota (nearly split into two pieces)
Atlantic & Pacific Junction. Topographical Map of a portion of the Isthmus Darie in site of
Proposed Inter-Oceanic Navigation, August, 1852 (nearly split in two)
Survey of the Mouth of the Clinton River, Michigan (old repairs)
