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Auction 150, Lot 159

"Map Showing the Line of the Norfolk and Western and Shenandoah Valley Railroads and Their Connection with the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line [with report] First Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company", Colton, G.W. & C.B.

Subject: Eastern United States

Period: 1881 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
25.6 x 19.1 inches
65 x 48.5 cm
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This very detailed map of the eastern United States shows the extensive railroad network. The tracks of the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line are highlighted in red, with the Louisville and Nashville system in blue. Concentric circles are drawn showing the distance from various points to Roanoke, Va, with a table of distances at bottom. The map is still accompanied by the First Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company. 51 pp., 8vo with light blue paper wrappers.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with a barely noticeable edge tear at bottom that extends 6" into the image and has been closed on verso with archival tape. Text is clean and bright with the front paper wrapper detached.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $75

Closed on 9/17/2014

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