This book is a companion volume to Nelson's The Union Pacific Railroad and The Yosemite Valley and The Mammoth Trees and Geysers of California. (Both of which I have listed)

 The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Ogden to San Francisco.

32 pp. Illustrated with map and 12 color plates from engraved sketches at rear. 10.5 cm x16.5 cm, [1871], original terra cotta cloth with decorative stamping in black, gold, and blind with title printed on pictorial paper inlay on front cover, yellow coated endpapers. First edition.

  The British Library dates their copy 1870. The guide was bound in various colors of cloth with title stamped in gold on front cover and decorations in black and blind.

This is a rust or terra cotta color. Bindings have decorative stamping in black, gold, and blind with title printed on pictorial paper inlay on front cover. A view book of chromolithographic views along the path of the Central Pacific Railroad. The descriptions were based on observations made by the Nelson party while visiting the west and California. The author was not identified, but it is probable that it was William Nelson.

Inside cover page has a blue ink stamp indicating the "E.S. Denison News Agency C.P.& W.P.R.R. Sacremento, Cal." with a penciled letter that I can't make out to the left of the C. and below the E in News Agency. Cloth shows minor wear at spine ends and corner tips. some minor spotting here and there, overall a very good copy.