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Title: Turners' guide from the Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, via the Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, Chicago and North-Western, and Union Pacific Railroads ... : including a historical and statistical account of the railroads of the country, towns and cities along the route, and notices of the connecting roads and routes Author: Turner, T.G & C.E. Turner Place: Chicago Publisher: Spalding & LaMontes, Printers Date: 1868 Description: 288 pp. 8¾x5½, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Guide to the west as far as the rails would take you in the last year before the completion of the trans-continental railroad. the first 12 pages and pp. 249-288 are advertisements, including a color plate of a Studebaker wagon. Scarce pre-Chicago fire imprint. Ante-Fire Imprints 1414; Eberstadt 114:804; Decker-Soliday IV:900; Graff 4211. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor rubbing to extremities; rear hinge cracking, short marginal tears to two advertisement leaves at rear, else very good. Item number: 204691