Chas Lamborn (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. _____ Single sheet, 35 x 38.75", folded to 36 panels. _____ The exterior are is text in dense columns and most comprises a narrative extolling region._____ Includes a brief gazetteer of various towns in Washington and Idaho. _____ The remaining panes give a detailed explanation of how one manages to buy railroad and claim free government lands, as well as the privileges offered by the Northern Pacific to settlers._____ This section ends with the exhortation to contact Mssrs Groat & Lamborn of the NPRR for further information, hence our assignment of the authorship to them. _____ ._____This side is illustrated with 16 engravings of agricultural scenes._____ There is also a 12 x 9" sectional "Map of Washington, Oregon and Part of Idaho", with the NPRR lines in bold._____ . _____ The entire interior (less one panel) is a black and white sectional "Map Showing Land Grant / of the / Northern Pacific Railroad Co._____/ in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho / Corrected up to Sept. 1, 1892." The sections are shaded to indicate: NPRR lands available, sold, US Government lands, US govt. lands entered, and sections reserved for schools._____ . _____ The remaining interior panel is a route map of the Northern Pacific route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, with all the intermediary stops captioned. _____ ._____Though the map is corrected to 1892, statistics for that entire year are cited, so we date the issue to 1893. _____ Several internal folds have 2 to 4" splits, with flaking loss to their edges. _____ WorldCat (03/17) shows two holdings for this year (Yale, UC-Berkeley), both citing the map date. _____.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. _____ Single sheet, 13 x 35", folded to 32 panels. _____ Three quarters of the exterior are columns, set to effectively create three small folio pages._____ It comprises a narrative extolling western, central and eastern Washington and (very briefly) Oregon._____ Concludes with a mouth-watering list of other maps available from the railroad._____ This narrative section ends with the exhortation of contact Mssrs Groat & Lamborn of the NPRR for further information, hence our assignment of the authorship to them. _____ Illustrated with engravings of lumbering, fishing, and agriculture._____ There is also a 12 x 19" sectional "Map of Washington, Oregon and Part of Idaho." . _____ Of the remaining eight panels of the exterior, four are a detailed explanation of how one manages to buy railroad and claim government lands, as well as the privileges offered by the NPRR to settlers._____ The remaining four panels constitute the covers, one of which has our cited title. _____ The entire interior (less one panel) is a black and white sectional "Map Showing Land Grant / Of The / Northern Pacific Railroad Co. / In Western Washington And Northern Oregon / Corrected Up To Sept. 1, 1892 / Scale 6 Miles To One Inch." ____Sections are shown as available, sold, US government lands, US Govt. lands entered and sections reserved for schools._____ The last interior panel is a route map of the Northern Pacific from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, with all the intermediary stops labeled. _____ Several internal folds have been neatly reinforced on the text side._____ The bottom edge of four overhanging panels are frayed. _____ WorldCat (03/21) shows a single holding (Yale)._____.