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[Texas]
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Colton's "New Medium" Map of the State of Texas from the latest & Most Authentic Sources. New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1874
- paper, ink, leather
Hand-colored folding pocket map (26 2/3 x 20 3/8 in.; 677 x 516 mm). Within an ornamental border with four inset maps of the Northern Panhandle, Matagorda Bay, Sabine Lake and Galveston Bay; expert restoration repairing usual separations at the folds. Folds into publisher's brown cloth covers.
Catalogue Note
Scarce pocket map of Texas.
First issued in 1872, the state is shown divided into numerous counties with numerous named cities, towns railroads, etc., though with west Texas still largely unsettled and divided into only five counties.