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Auction archive: Lot number 20

Color pictorial bird's-eye airline route maps 1929

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,062
Auction archive: Lot number 20

Color pictorial bird's-eye airline route maps 1929

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,062
Beschreibung:

[12] pp. including color pictorial self-wrapper. With 4 double-page color pictorial cartoon-style bird's-eye route maps, plus half-page color map of the U.S. and illustrations from photographs. 22.7x20.5 cm (9x8"), single-sheet self-wrapper with color pictorial map of the U.S., folded in half vertically as intended. Marvelous and quite rare brochure for Western Air Express, a pioneering mail and passenger service which evolved into Western Air Lines. Only two copies listed in OCLC, at California State Library and Southern Methodist University. The four route maps are: San Francisco-Los Angeles. 365 miles - 3 hours. Los Angeles-Kansas City. 1,417 miles - 12 hours. Los Angeles to Catalina 45 miles - 30 minutes [&] Los Angeles to Tia Juana or Agua Caliente 116 miles - 1 hour. Los Angeles - Salt Lake City. 600 miles - 6 hours.

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

[12] pp. including color pictorial self-wrapper. With 4 double-page color pictorial cartoon-style bird's-eye route maps, plus half-page color map of the U.S. and illustrations from photographs. 22.7x20.5 cm (9x8"), single-sheet self-wrapper with color pictorial map of the U.S., folded in half vertically as intended. Marvelous and quite rare brochure for Western Air Express, a pioneering mail and passenger service which evolved into Western Air Lines. Only two copies listed in OCLC, at California State Library and Southern Methodist University. The four route maps are: San Francisco-Los Angeles. 365 miles - 3 hours. Los Angeles-Kansas City. 1,417 miles - 12 hours. Los Angeles to Catalina 45 miles - 30 minutes [&] Los Angeles to Tia Juana or Agua Caliente 116 miles - 1 hour. Los Angeles - Salt Lake City. 600 miles - 6 hours.

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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