Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

89 c   (HUDSON RIVER.) “The D & H” Delaware and Hudson R.R. Chromo- lithographed broadside advertisement map. 26 1 / 4 x21 1 / 4 inches sheet size; light waterstaining at lower margin, short closed tear into lower image, minor surface abrasions at corner margins. New York: American Bank Note Co., circa 1890 [1,500/2,500] The central map advertises the D & H railroad lines running the course of the Hudson River from New York City to Canada and is bordered by a series of wonderfully chromolithographed views of New York City, Albany, Saratoga, Lake Champlain, Montreal, Lake George, the Adirondack Mountains and Ausable Chasm. The D & H ran as an independent railroad from the 1870’s until 1991, when it was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway.