Title: Guide to the Great West: Being a brief, but carefully written, description of the country bordering upon all the principal railroads of the West... Author: Tracy, J[oshua] L. Place: St. Louis Publisher: Tracy & Eaton Date: 1870 Description: 261, [1], [7] pp. Advertisement and blank "memorandum" pages at times included in pagination, others not. With 3 folding maps. 7¼x4¾, original gilt-lettered cloth. Scarce guide concentrating on the newly opening railways. There were apparently two variant issues with differing paginations and number of maps - the one cited by Howes had only two maps. The maps in the present copy are a map showing the railroad connections of the West, 1870; map of the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railways, showing lands for sale by the National Land Company; and a map of Atlantic & Pacific & South Pacific Rail Road Co. of Missouri, 1870 (the first and last have stub tears). Howes T324. Lot Amendments Condition: Neat repairs to joints; offset to endpapers, front with rubberstamps of Chauncey I. Filley, else near fine. Item number: 204939
Title: Guide to the Great West: Being a brief, but carefully written, description of the country bordering upon all the principal railroads of the West... Author: Tracy, J[oshua] L. Place: St. Louis Publisher: Tracy & Eaton Date: 1870 Description: 261, [1], [7] pp. Advertisement and blank "memorandum" pages at times included in pagination, others not. With 3 folding maps. 7¼x4¾, original gilt-lettered cloth. Scarce guide concentrating on the newly opening railways. There were apparently two variant issues with differing paginations and number of maps - the one cited by Howes had only two maps. The maps in the present copy are a map showing the railroad connections of the West, 1870; map of the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railways, showing lands for sale by the National Land Company; and a map of Atlantic & Pacific & South Pacific Rail Road Co. of Missouri, 1870 (the first and last have stub tears). Howes T324. Lot Amendments Condition: Neat repairs to joints; offset to endpapers, front with rubberstamps of Chauncey I. Filley, else near fine. Item number: 204939
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