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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Mexico Author: Rand, McNally & Co. Place: Chicago Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co. Engr's Date: 1881 Description: Wax engraved map, printed in color, coded for land grants and reservations. 48.5x33.8 cm (19¼x13¼"), folding into gilt-lettered cloth covers 17.7x10.7 cm (7x4¼"); with 18-pp text, "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Map of New Mexico..." Good detail with notable inclusion of the land grants and Indian reservations. The map later appeared in Rand McNally's Indexed Atlas of the World; there is also a larger scale version of this map. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Mexico [in upper margin] | New Mexico | Scale of Statute Miles [linear scale] | Rand, McNally & Co., Engr's, Chicago. | [in folder with text; title :] Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Map of New Mexico with a new and original compilation and index designating all Post Office Towns and Railroad Stations, and giving Full Postal Directions for sending mail matter to every place not a post office, in the territory, known in the Post Office Department as"Locals." Also, an Alphabetically Arranged List of all Railroads in the Territory With the nameof the Express Comapny doing business over each. Also, of the Counties, Lakes, Rivers, Etc., Tec. Chicago, U.S.A. : Rand, McNally & Co., Map Publishers and Engravers. | [Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by Rand, McNally & Co., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Provenance: Russ Todd, 1/91 Lot Amendments Condition: Map very faintly toned, a few slight splits at intersections of folds; very good. Item number: 265107