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Lot 29
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(CARTOGRAPHY) COLTON, J.H.
The western tourist and emigrant's guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota [sic.], Missouri, and Nebraska ... Accompanied with a large and minute map. New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1854 [map dated 1855].Folding pocket map (54x 67 cm., sheet), folds into publisher's red cloth covers; decoratively stamped in blind, with upper cover titled in gilt. 89 pages of text and28 pages of ads mounted to inside wrapper. With full period hand-coloring.Title page revised to account for newly-established Territory of Nebraska and updated throughout to account for development along Midwestern frontier.


