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 (this latter with 3" stub tear). Not sold at auction over the last 35 years, according to American Book Prices Current. Howes T324. Lot Amendments Condition: Neat repairs to joints; offset to endpapers, front with rubberstamps of Chauncey I. Filley, else near fine. Item number: 199349
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 (this latter with 3" stub tear). Not sold at auction over the last 35 years, according to American Book Prices Current. Howes T324. Lot Amendments Condition: Neat repairs to joints; offset to endpapers, front with rubberstamps of Chauncey I. Filley, else near fine. Item number: 199349
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