Jun 07, 2018 - Sale 2481

Sale 2481 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
COLTON, G.W. and; COLTON, C.B. Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and its Connections. Hand-colored engraved folding railroad map of the United States. 8 1/4x27 inches sheet size, right margin trimmed to neatline (excising a printed advertisement); light soiling along lower edge; ink stamp of the University of Michigan Transportation Library on verso. New York: Colton, [1867]

Additional Details

Scarce map of the United States showing the first transcontinental railroad's routes of operation as of January 1st, 1867 and proposed lines to be in operation as of September 1st, 1867. with: a sixteen-page 1867 prospectus pamphlet from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Not in Modelski, OCLC locates just two copies of the map.