LLOYD'S RAILROAD, TELEGRAPH & EXPRESS MAP OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS, FROM OFFICIAL INFORMATION.
New York & London: J.T. Lloyd, Publisher, 23 Cortlandt St., New York, and 1 Strand, London, 1864. Large folding map, 94 X 126 cm., backed with cloth, the states hand-colored in light shades of pink, green, and yellow. Tipped into a patterned brown cloth folder (spine faded) with cloth ties (one tie broken), gilt title on front board: "Lloyd's New-Map of the United States and Canadas." Inset maps of: (1) Riviere du Loup Branch, or Northern Terminus of Grand Trunk Railroad; (2) Map of the Eastern States, on a Large Scale to Accompany Lloyd's R.R., Tele., and Express Map; (3) Railroads in Texas. Printed on verso, and just visible beneath the cloth backing is the printed text of Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly from Saturday, Sept. 1863, pp. 1-2. We have had other Lloyd maps with cloth backing over printed text. The map depicts the United States from the western edges of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, east to the Atlantic Ocean, (parts of Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas also appear on the western edge), south to the Gulf of Mexico and northern portion of Florida, and north to Lake Superior and just north of Quebec. Included are symbols showing the Express Company offices. Steamship lines, as well as Magnetic Telegraph Wires and Railroad lines completed and in operation as of July 1863 are shown, including the "Atlantic and Great Western Broad Guage System from New York to St. Louis and the West, Without Change of Cars." An ad for Drake's Plantation Bitters, "sold throughout the Civilized World" appears on the map.
The publisher offers the map in several forms, uncolored, colored, or mounted with rollers and varnished, for various prices. He also appends a note warning customers that there is another company fraudulently publishing maps using the Lloyd name: "This man's maps are engraved coarsely on wood and very erroneous. He follows us with an imitation of every Map we issue. A Map of the Southern States, issued by him, has Farmington in the place of Corinth, Mississippi, and the latter place omitted from his map altogether." One small hole in a blank area of the map, at the far right margin, else a very good copy. Item #62829
Two listings on OCLC for this edition: Mass. Hist. Society; Univ. of Texas- Arlington.
Price: $2,750.00