$523
Phelps's Travellers' Guide Throughout the United States; Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Rail-Road, Canal, and Stage and Steam-Boat Routes. New York: Phelps, Ensigns, & Thayer, 1847. 12mo, 70 numbered pages showing cross-country routes, and a large folding map, hand-outlined, on onion-skin paper, with an ornamental border featuring state seals and portraits of the founding fathers and other statesmen, explorers, and Presidents, few small holes where folds converge, the map 21 x 24 3/4 in., bound in the original gold-tooled morocco covers, stamped with a locomotive engine and rail cars at the top and a steam boat down below, surface rubbed, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-23
