NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. A JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE WHILST ENGAGED IN THE SURVEY FOR A SOUTHERN RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN DURING 1867-8. By William A. Bell, M.A., M.B. Cantab., Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Ethnological Societies.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1869. 22x14.45 cm (octavo), two volumes: pp. [i-vii] viii-x [xi] xii [xiii-xv] xvi-xxi [xxii] xxiii-xxxvii [xxxviii] xxxix-lvi [lvii] lviii-lxv [lxvi-lxvii] [1] 2-236; [i-v] vi-vii [viii-x] [1] 2-322 + 20-page publisher's catalogue dated "June, 1869" inserted at rear, half titles present, 23 inserted plates with lithographic illustrations, several tinted, one inserted plate with woodcut illustration, nine woodcut illustrations in the text (including one on each title page), folded colored map, 3 "diagrams" (i.e. 3 small maps on an inserted plate), nineteenth century three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, spine panels richly tooled in gold with green and red leather spine labels, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. First edition. (#166968)
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