May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 178

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.) The National Railway Publication Company. Two separately-issued nineteenth-century hand-colored lithographed pocket maps. Philadelphia, early 1870s

Additional Details

- Map of the Northern Pacific R.R. It's Connections and Tributary Country. 8¾x28 inches overall and folding into publisher's 12mo format cloth case with pastedown advertisement of Philadelphia mapseller J.L. Smith; period cloth backing, perforated stamp of the Wagner Free Institute of Science at upper right title.

- Map of the Northern Pacific Railway and Tributary Country. 24¼x28¾ inches overall and folding into publisher's 8vo format gilt cloth case; period cloth backing, splits and detachments along fold lines reinforced on verso with film tape, blindstamp of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, at upper right corner.