[Bradstreet Company]:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

BRADSTREET'S POCKET ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES. First edition of this charming pocket atlas, issued as a promotional item by the Boston clothing firm of Macullar, Parker & Company. The two-page frontispiece depicts an image of the company's headquarters and a diagram of the building identifying each department. There are colored maps of each state and territory, including Washington, Dakota, and Indian Territories. On the verso of most maps is information typical of almanacs of the time: summaries of business law, population centers, time differences around the world, prices of gold, weights and measures, etc., as well as in-depth information on the Boston Fire Alarm Telegraph, including locations of alarm boxes throughout the city and instructions on how to operate the alarms.The atlas is uncommon; we only found six copies listed in OCLC, at Trinity College, Boston Public, Harvard Business, Dartmouth, Princeton, University of Texas at Arlington. Later editions followed in the 1880s, but this 1879 edition is the earliest listed in OCLC.

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