1856 1ed HUGE MAP Colton’s Traveler Guide Book Illustrated Americana California
J.H. Colton’s ‘Traveler and Tourist’s Guide-Book’ is an important late 19th-century geographical book with an enormous folding map of the American ‘west’ including Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Wisconsin. According to Howes, this work includes descriptions and material on California, Oregon, and Texas, with overland routes and westward expansion.
Colton’s maps, including this one, were extremely popular in the 19th-century for their detail and durability.
1856 1ed HUGE MAP Colton’s Traveler Guide Book Illustrated Americana California
J.H. Colton’s ‘Traveler and Tourist’s Guide-Book’ is an important late 19th-century geographical book with an enormous folding map of the American ‘west’ including Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Wisconsin. According to Howes, this work includes descriptions and material on California, Oregon, and Texas, with overland routes and westward expansion.
Colton’s maps, including this one, were extremely popular in the 19th-century for their detail and durability.
Item number: #3596
Price: $750
COLTON, J.H.
Colton’s traveler and tourist’s guide-book through the western states and territories : containing brief descriptions of each, with the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied by a map, exhibiting the township lines of the U.S. surveys, the boundaries of counties, position of cities, villages, settlements, etc.
New York : J.H. Colton and Company, No. 172 William Street, 1856.
Details:
- Collation complete with all pages: 100, [36]
- Huge folding color map
- Provenance: Handwritten; John Adam Strunck 1886
- References: Howes C 623
- Binding: cloth hardcover; tight and secure
- Language: English
- Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)
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1856 1ed HUGE MAP Colton’s Traveler Guide Book Illustrated Americana California
J.H. Colton’s ‘Traveler and Tourist’s Guide-Book’ is an important late 19th-century geographical book with an enormous folding map of the American ‘west’ including Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Wisconsin. According to Howes, this work includes descriptions and material on California, Oregon, and Texas, with overland routes and westward expansion.
Colton’s maps, including this one, were extremely popular in the 19th-century for their detail and durability.
Item number: #3596
Price: $750
COLTON, J.H.
Colton’s traveler and tourist’s guide-book through the western states and territories : containing brief descriptions of each, with the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied by a map, exhibiting the township lines of the U.S. surveys, the boundaries of counties, position of cities, villages, settlements, etc.
New York : J.H. Colton and Company, No. 172 William Street, 1856.
Details:
- Collation complete with all pages: 100, [36]
- Huge folding color map
- Provenance: Handwritten; John Adam Strunck 1886
- References: Howes C 623
- Binding: cloth hardcover; tight and secure
- Language: English
- Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!
3596
Categories
Americana, American History
Voyages & Exploration & Maps
Authors
COLTON, J.H.
Printing Date
19th Century
Language
English
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete