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Henry T. Williams [editor]. The Pacific Tourist. Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, From the Atlantic to the...
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Henry T. Williams [editor]. The Pacific Tourist. Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. New York: Henry T. Williams, Publisher, 1877. 1877 edition. 8vo. 278pp; [3]pp index, with [6]pp advertisements. Profusely illustrated. Bound in beautiful full brown calf over pliable boards with twin-ruled borders and corner rosettes stamped in gilt on the boards, and titles stamped in gilt in six compartments between five raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Trivial wear to the boards with some equally trivial scattered foxing, else very good condition.From the subtitle: "Containing full description of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far west, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man. A complete travelers Guide for The Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the Pacific coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone."
Contemporary owner's note written in ink on the preface page reading: "I bought this book on the cars soon after leaving San Francisco on my journey to New York. C. T. Lombarde, June, 1887." Ex Ben E. Pingenot.
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2009 November Signature Texana Auction #6028 (go to Auction Home page)
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