Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MOORE, S.S.; and JONES, T.W. The Traveller's Directory, or a Pocket Companion; Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York, and from Philadelphia to Washington. Half-title, [4], 52 pages, and 38 maps on 22 engraved sheets (final map of Washington City provided in facsimile.) 8vo, 8 1/4x5 1/4 inches, contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving original morocco spine label; staining and browning throughout, map-sheet 21/22 defective. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1802

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"One of the earliest guides" (Howes) of American roads, second only to Christopher Colles' "Survey of the Roads of the United States of America" published in 1789. Howes M778; Sabin 50436.