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Auction 120, Lot 335

"Mendenhall's Guide and Road Map of Pennsylvania Showing Main Touring Routes & Good Roads", Mendenhall Map Publisher, C.S.

Subject: Pennsylvania

Period: 1905 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
37.3 x 27 inches
94.7 x 68.6 cm
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This is a rare pocket map by an obscure publisher. The large and very detailed map of the state is beautifully colored in red, yellow, and black. With large inset maps of Erie, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Scranton and Reading. A 16pp route guide is bound at front inside cover. Folds into original pictorial wrapper (4.5 x 7") with engraving of four men touring in an early open car. Ad on rear cover for this series of road maps; "These maps are especially designed and bound in pocket form for the use of Touring Automobilists, Cyclists and Wagon-road travelers." A scarce pocket map.

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Condition: B+

The map is near fine, less a few fold intersection splits. The front cover is nearly detached and missing the lower right corner affecting text.

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for: $60

Closed on 7/18/2007

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