May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 217

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(UNITED STATES.) Haasis & Lubrecht. The American Union Railroad Map of the United States, British Possessions, West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. Large wax-engraved map of the United States illustrating her mass network of nineteenth-century railroad lines bordered by statistical tables, an animated pictorial title cartouche, and a condensed panorama of the continent from San Francisco to New York. 39½x53¾ inches overall, wide margins; bold original hand-color in full; old folds with seams starting at the edges, a few minor losses at fold intersections, small repair at lower left corner margin. Modelski 53. New York, 1871