Sold for:
$1,500
$1,500
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1875. Folio, original 3/4 brown calf over gilt-embossed brown cloth, gilt-decorated and -lettered spine. First edition of this comprehensive atlas anticipating the centennial anniversary of America (Phillips). Variant copy with focus on the territory of the 8th Iowa Congressional District. With engraved frontispiece and title page, 5 pp. index of place names, and over 200 lithographic maps, plans, portraits and views, many in color. Edgewear and rubbing to boards; ex-library copy with "withdrawn" stamp to both sides of title leaf; scattered light finger smudges.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07