New Jersey Antique Map – The Garden State, Railroads & Counties, c.1888

Name: New Jersey Antique Map – The Garden State, Railroads & Counties, c.1888
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-21
Price: 515 USD
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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 52.5 × 36 cm (20.7 × 14.2 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition with mild toning and clean margins. Original center fold as issued with faint darkening along the crease. Plate mark visible. Strong impression with crisp detail and attractive insets.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: New Jersey
Reference: BG-12794-21

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

New Jersey in c.1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. printed in color, with the counties tinted in pale outline color and railroad lines overprinted in red and blue. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Jersey" runs up the right margin beside atlas page numbers 160 and 161.

The whole state is shown on an upright sheet, from the northern counties and the Delaware Water Gap down to Cape May, with the Atlantic Ocean lettered along the right and Delaware Bay at the bottom. Railroad lines run thickly across the northeast around Newark and Jersey City, and down through Trenton and Camden toward the shore resorts. Philadelphia lies across the Delaware at the lower left. Two insets show the heavily built-up areas: one at the upper left shows the area around Paterson, and the other at the lower right shows New York Bay and the harbor with Jersey City and Brooklyn.

The sheet records New Jersey as a corridor between New York and Philadelphia, with a close network of railroads feeding the ports on either side.

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