The Northern Traveller: (Combined with the Northern Tour) Containing the Routes to Niagara, Quebec, and the Springs. With the Tour of New-England, and the Route to the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania - Third Edition, Revised and Extended

[Dwight, Theodore]

Published by New York, New York, 1828

About this Item

Original 1/2 leather with marbled boards, front board nearly detached. 403 pp., 18 (of 19) maps, 10 (of 11) plates. Lacks 2 leaves (pp. 47-50). It appears that these two leaves, along with one map and one plate in that location, were never bound into this copy. This is among the earliest American guidebooks which describes a railroad, in this instance the Mauch Chunk Railway, nine miles long at this time, which was the second operating railroad in the United States. Thomson 209.

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• Title: The Northern Traveller: (Combined with the Northern Tour) Containing the Routes to Niagara, Quebec, and the Springs. With the Tour of New-England, and the Route to the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania - Third Edition, Revised and Extended
• Publisher: New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1828
• Binding: Hardcover
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