[ATWELL, H. Wallace, compiler]. Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist's Guideā
Item #7939
224 pp.; pictorial wrappers (California in 1869 & Seal Rocks, San Francisco); engraved frontispiece & illustrations; 5 fold-out sheets with plates & maps [4] printed on both sides, incl. Omaha & Council Bluffs, 12"x15"; Salt Lake City, 10"x12+"; Yellowstone Nat'l Park, 10"x9"; World Map of trans-continental, trans-European, etc. routes. Three single page maps including the New Mining Map of Utah facing p. 102. New York: Geo A. Crofutt, 1872. Fourth Vol., Third Annual Revised Edition. Howes C901. Dozens of engravings reveal the country "opened up" with completion of the Pacific Railroad. Ink notation on verso of front wrapper reads: "The property of C.F. Platt - Received by Mail at Painted Post NY from C.H. Wood & Morton Wilder - December 21, 1872 - Sent from Sacramento California." Some wear & edge chips to wrappers, front wrapper reinforced at top edge with tissue backing, several tissue reinforcements to maps, else this very fragile item very good. |
