Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 354

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(RAILROADS.) Information and Directions, Relative to Laying a Single Track of Wood Rail Way; on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road [caption title]. 8 pages. Small 8vo, self-wrappers; a bit browned and stained, partially separated along fold; uncut and unopened. [Baltimore, 1830]

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An extraordinarily ephemeral piece of railroadiana from the building of the B&O, giving detailed instructions on how to lay tracks, intended for contractors and workers. Thomson 374 (locating just two known copies).