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Chisholm, C. R.
Chisholm's All Round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St Lawrence.
Publisher: C. R. Chisholm & Bros, Montreal;
Date of Publication: 1876
Stock Code: 7374
Octavo, pp. xii, [5]-288. 7 fold-out maps including large eleven-and-a-half-foot sketch map of the Lakes bound to fore; numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including several to advertisements. Publishers’ original pebbled purple cloth with gilt titles and gilt ornate decoration to upper board; advertisements to primrose yellow endpapers. Spine a little sunned with wear at tips and minor loss at joints. Some mis-folding to maps; minor tears with small loss to margin of 12-foot map (illustration unaffected); a little scattered foxing. No annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy. Classic tourist guide for railway travellers, aimed at the prosperous burgeoning middle class, covering the Hudson River, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, Boston & New York and more. An attractive copy in the publishers’ original gilt cloth. Scarce. £250.00