[Maps & Atlases] The Western Tourist and Emigrant’s Guide Through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota, Missouri, and Nebraska...
Sale 2101 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 10, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
Estimate
$600 -
$900
Sold for $699
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Lot Description
[Maps & Atlases] The Western Tourist and Emigrant’s Guide Through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota, Missouri, and Nebraska...
New York: Published by J.H. Colton, 1852. 12mo. 89, (1), 18 (ads) pp; plus large hand-colored engraved folding pocket map ("Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa. Showing the Township lines of the United States Surveys, Location of Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail and Stage Roads”, by J. Calvin Smith). Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, lightly rubbed; all edges trimmed; front free endpaper adhered to front paste-down; offsetting on title-page from damp, small abrasion at bottom of same; scattered light spotting to map, small separations along folds of same. See Howes S-615; Ristow, p.316
A lovely copy, unrecorded by Howes.
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