STATE, TERRITORIAL AND OCEAN GUIDE BOOK OF THE PACIFIC: CONTAINING THE TIME AND DISTANCE TABLES, RATES, FARES AND FREIGHT TARIFF, OF ALL STEAMSHIP, STEAMBOAT, RAILWAY, STAGE AND EXPRESS LINES, ON OR CONNECTING WITH THE PACIFIC COAST AND THE INTERIOR...TO
Holdredge, Sterling M.:
San Francisco: Sterling M. Holdredge, 1865. xvi,182pp., plus 48pp. of advertisements printed on colored paper, and nine double-page maps. Chromolithographic and printed letterpress titlepages. Original half sheep and cloth boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly shelfworn. Some light spotting to the preliminary leaves, else a near fine copy. A rare and little-known - but very important - travel guide to the American West, featuring nine double-page maps of western states and territories. The text gives rules, regulations, and freight charges for shipping goods and materials all over the West, and describes wagon roads, and stage and steamboat lines. The maps, lithographed by G.T. Brown, show California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, and are discussed at great length by Wheat. The maps show water transportation routes, settlements, passes, roads, trails, and proposed railroad lines. "Mullan's Wagon Road" is shown in Washington, "DeGroot's Trail" is traced in Nevada, Mormon settlements are shown in Utah, and Lake Tahoe is named on the California and Nevada maps. "The maps show a remarkably detailed picture of the stage routes, stations, trails, and mining camps" - Wagner- Camp. The attractive chromolithographic titlepage shows a globe surrounded by ships, a railroad, and stagecoach lines. The plentiful advertisements give a wealth of information on the economic life of the Far West. SABIN 32486. COWAN, p.289. STREETER SALE 2906. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1123. WAGNER-CAMP 417a.
(Item ID: WRCAM38617) $18,500.00