North America Antique Railroad Map c.1888 – U.S., Canada & Mexico

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North America Antique Railroad Map c.1888 – U.S., Canada & Mexico

Name: North America Antique Railroad Map c.1888 – U.S., Canada & Mexico
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-2
Price: 605 USD
Availability: InStock

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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 even toning and original hand coloring well preserved. Center fold as issued. Minor edge toning and light handling marks in the margins, not affecting the printed area.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada, Mexico
Reference: BG-12794-2

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

North America in c.1888, an original color-printed map by Rand, McNally & Co., with the political divisions tinted in pastel yellow, pink and green. The title "North America" is lettered at the lower left, and the running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s North America" appears in the right margin beside atlas page numbers 20 and 21.

The continent is shown on an upright sheet from the Arctic to Central America. "British North America" is lettered across Canada, the United States is tinted state by state with its territories, and Mexico and Central America fill the south. The West Indies are lettered at the lower right and Greenland at the upper right, and the northern edge of the sheet is lettered "Unknown Region." A small inset at the left shows the Aleutian Islands. Lines of longitude and latitude curve across the sheet and a scale is given at the lower left.

The sheet records the continent as it was drawn in the late 1880s, with the Arctic still largely blank and the western United States divided into territories.

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