$250.00 CAD
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Great late 19th century travel and tourism guide for North America, packed with information and maps.
Nice cover issue of steam locomotive and cars at railway station, loading passengers and cargo.
Printed by Rand McNally & Co. 77 and 79 Madison St. Chicago.
Packed with information of all modes of transport, schedules, fares, connections, description of towns and their hotels, railway personnel, etc.
Many railway maps, including full color map of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. network.
Packed with advertising: The Hoole Baggage Check Co., Michigan Railway Lands, Marvin Safe Co., Zero Refrigerator, Grand Union Hotel (NYC), Woodbury Booth & Pryor, Goodrich Transport Co. (Steamboats), Iowa Railroad Land Co., Palmer House Chicago,etc..
Bound with three strings along spine, one snapped. Spine intact but bit scuffed. UR corner missing of front cover. Crease LR corner. Smudges on front, inside right page. Crease UR corners of first few pages. Small pencil makss inside.
360 pages + covers
17 x 13 x 2 cm
Rand McNally & Company, American publisher and printer of maps, atlases, globes, and tourist guidebooks; its headquarters are in Skokie, Illinois. Founded in 1856 by William H. Rand and Andrew McNally and incorporated in 1873, it is the oldest firm of its kind in the country and one of the world’s leading mapmakers. The company’s first publication was an annual report of a railroad company in 1868, and the first map was issued in 1872. The Business Atlas, now known as the annual Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide, began publication in 1877.
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