Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway up to January 1877.
Ottawa. MacLean, Roger & Co., 1877. thick8vo, 23.8cm, xvi,431p., with 7 folding maps (3 in colour), text paper in brittle and some fore-edges are chipped, a few maps have clean tears at the folds, ex-library, in the original crimson half calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles, marbled boards, ex-library bookplates, expertly restored, in our experience this is the scarcest of the Fleming reports no doubt as a result of the original materials and this copy should be handle with care. Very Good. Item #44047
Peel 457. Lowther 505. In 1871 Fleming was appointed engineer-in-chief to superintend the surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He surveyed the route through the Yellowhead Pass which is now followed by the Canadian National Railway; and he was the first to demonstrate the practicability of the route through the Kicking Horse, Eagle and Rogers passes.
Price: $450.00