Illustrated Hand-Book: a New Guide for Travelers through the United States of America
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Sherman & Smith. Good with no dust jacket. 1848. Third Edition. Hardcover. A very early pocket map and tour guide for the United States. Red boards with gilt imprint and blind stamping. Rubbed and bumped corners, light soil on boards. Soil on edges and endpapers with a few lightly foxed pages. The folded and ornate hand-colored map is in good condition, but toned with fold splits that could use repair. Insets include the railroads around major cities and California, Oregon, and Washington, and many scenic illustrations. The map boundary ends around west Texas. Dallas appears as an isolated dot in one of its first appearances on US maps, eight years before it was incorporated as a city. Only three copies found on OCLC as of March 2016. Howes S 614. ; 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" ; 234 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010592
- Title
- Illustrated Hand-Book: a New Guide for Travelers through the United States of America
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Sherman & Smith
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1848
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Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...