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William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 13. Juli 2006
Folding colored lithographic map on tissue, 34 x 30 inches (76 x 86 1/4 cm). 12mo. Original brown cloth folder, boards stamped in gilt and blind cover. Boards a bit rubbed and worn, map bright and clean. Near fine. A handsome state map of Minnesota, beautifully colored and showing the extensive subdivision of the state and the development of the north shore of Lake Superior. The locations of United States land offices are shown, as are the boundaries of land districts, the locations of post offices, towns and villages, and completed railroad lines and those still under construction. Several tables gives distances by railroad and steamboat lines in Minnesota, and the cartouche features an illustration of a railroad snaking its way along a river (likely the Mississippi). The map was drawn by J.B. Power, chief draftsman in the Surveyor General's office, and the front pastedown contains an advertisement for publisher E.H. Burritt and Company, who also dealt in drafting instruments and materials, mapping paper, tracing cloth, pocket compasses, town plats, and more. CHECKLIST OF PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST (MINNESOTA) 0809. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM33608
Titel: BURRITT'S SECTIONAL AND TOWNSHIP MAP OF ...
Verlag: E.H. Burritt & Co., St. Paul
Erscheinungsdatum: 1871
Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
Folding colored lithographic map on tissue, 34 x 30 inches (76 x 86¼ cm). 12mo. Original brown cloth folder, boards stamped in gilt and blind cover. Boards a bit rubbed and worn, map bright and clean. Near fine. A handsome state map of Minnesota, beautifully colored and showing the extensive subdivision of the state and the development of the north shore of Lake Superior. The locations of United States land offices are shown, as are the boundaries of land districts, the locations of post offices, towns and villages, and completed railroad lines and those still under construction. Several tables gives distances by railroad and steamboat lines in Minnesota, and the cartouche features an illustration of a railroad snaking its way along a river (likely the Mississippi). The map was drawn by J.B. Power, chief draftsman in the Surveyor General's office, and the front pastedown contains an advertisement for publisher E.H. Burritt and Company, who also dealt in drafting instruments and materials, mapping paper, tracing cloth, pocket compasses, town plats, and more. CHECKLIST OF PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST (MINNESOTA) 0809. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33608
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