Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(RAILROADS.) Souvenir Exhibit of Progress in Transportation as Shown by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 22 albumen photographs on printed mounts. 17 pages. Oblong 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear, rebacked in calf; contents clean; copy #65 of a limited edition; original presentation inscription on front flyleaf. [Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1887]

Additional Details

Published in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Describes a parade demonstrating the various types of transportation used over the century, illustrated with correlating photographs. 4 copies in OCLC, and none known at auction.