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Lot 13
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$195
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Lot Description
[Americana] Baldwin, James Fowle, and James Hayward, and Solomon Willard. Report of the Board of Directors of Internal Improvements of the State of Massachusetts on the Practicability and Expediency of a Rail-Road from Boston to the Hudson River...
Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, W. L. Lewis, Printer, Congress-street, 1829. 8vo. 6 engraved folding maps and profiles. (Maps with toning, offsetting, spotting, several creases; title-page and last leaf of text laid down.) Contemporary half black morocco, spine ends a bit worn, joints touched up; : several early ownership signatures on title-page.
According to Modelski, these are the earliest published American railroad maps.
This lot is located in Chicago.