Dec 06, 2007 - Sale 2131

Sale 2131 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
COLTON, G. W. and C. B. Colton's Kansas. Hand-colored engraved folding pocket map, 460x655 mm; folds into the original 12mo format publisher's cloth case. Nice copy. New York, 1886

Additional Details

Front cover has a gilt-lettered stamp stating "Compliments of Aug. T. Post, Banker." Rumsey has several Colton state maps from the same year and in the same binding, and he speculates that the binding was reserved for commercial customers wishing to give the maps as gifts.