May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(WESTERN SURVEYS.) Roeser, C.; General Land Office. Atlas of the States and Territories Over Which Land Surveys Have Been Extended. [Cover title.] Index and 29 double-page three-stone lithographed maps backed on canvas with leather title-tabs, as issued. Folio, 690x460 mm, original 1/4 calf with gilt-lettered title label, a little rubbed; contents very nice but for a few leather tabs missing. [Washington, D.C.: General Land Office, 1878-79]

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An important and quite scarce atlas, of particular note for its coverage of the western states and territories. This edition of 1879 was substantially expanded from the so-called Centennial Atlas, issued by the GLO in '76; that atlas contained 18 maps. Not in Rumsey. Phillips, Atlases, 1405.