Philadelphia PA c.1908 Noll's huge pocket map bicycles automobiles roads
Brian DiMambro- Antiquarian Books, Maps & PrintsNoll's New Bicycle, Road, & Driving Map of Philadelphia and Vicinity.
(early autombile road map- automotive cartography).
Issued Philadelphia, E. P. Noll & Co., c.1908.
Beautiful very large early 20th century lithographed pocket map. Overprinted in blue to show early automobile roads.
Light uniform paper age toning, original fold lines, some small splitting with tiny paper loss at a couple fold-line intersections (video captures condition better than words), overall remaining clean - a pleasing and well preserved example, with an interesting publishers rubber stamping to indicate they had recently moved from #9 to #21.
Sheet measures c. 32" x 32 1/2".
Printed area measures c. 31" x 31 3/4".
Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, v. 3, p. 330.
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