[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America
Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Good. Item #45591
Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Illustrated broadside (31x36cm) featuring illustrations of both the first English and American steam engines. A few small nicks to edges; folds; vertical split down center with tape mending to verso and recto along bottom edge; Good overall. Includes stories behind the first ever runs of the English Locomotive Engine No. 1 and the American John Bull, including the passenger list of the latter. We locate three holdings in OCLC of earlier editions with larger formats, at Library of Congress and Princeton.
Price: $350.00