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Lot 191
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"[Map in Brochure] Florida East Coast Railway and Hotel", Matthews-Northrup Co

Subject: Florida

Period: 1902-03 (published)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
6.9 x 9.1 inches
17.5 x 23.1 cm
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This promotional brochure was issued jointly by the Florida East Coast Hotel Co. and the Florida East Coast Railway Co. It features a centerfold Map of Florida and the West Indies(6 x 10") showing the Railway from Jacksonville to Miami along with ferry routes extending to Havanna and Nassau. The map is surrounded by an elaborate art nouveau decorative border. The lavish production also features 30 unnumbered pages, many folding, with numerous illustrations of hotels, scenery, and golf course maps. A single-page map of the entire eastern United States shows the Florida East Coast R'y and Connections at the back of the brochure. Stiff decorative paper wrappers with original string ties.

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Condition: B+

Contents are mostly clean and bright with a few spots of foxing on the map and occasionally along the sheet edges throughout. Covers have bumped corners.

Estimate: $180 - $220

Price: $100

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