Chicago: Rand McNally, 1904. Folding map, approximately 21 x 27.5 inches. Original, wallet-style printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps; a few short separations along fold lines. Light tanning. Uncommon cartographic promotional for this early 20th-century mining company with operations near Cananea and Magdalena in the Northern Mexican state of Sonora..... More
[New York? 1871]. Folding pamphlet, 6 x 17 inches. Separated along one fold. A few later pencil annotations. Light wear and tanning. A scarce advertisement for bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad, issued in 1871 during the first great construction push on the line. Although the company was founded..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de I. Escalante, 1873. 83pp. Original printed wrappers. Two wrapper corners chipped away. Otherwise light wear and dust soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. A scarce summation of W.S. Rosecrans' arguments for the construction under his concession of cross-country railroad and telegraph lines from a point..... More
[Aberdeen? 1893]. [8]pp. on a folded sheet of green paper. Minor wear, some minor soiling to rear panel. Promotional brochure for South Dakota and the area around Aberdeen, the state's third most populous city. The "Big Five" Counties comprise Brown, Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, and Walworth, sitting along the northeast part..... More