Travel/Maps from The Personal Navigator

Boston, MA, ca. 1924. 8 x 15.2 cm. Small handbook for visitors to Boston, with ample advertisement of the rascally Mayor, James M. Curley. Contains frontispiece photo of the Mayor, and the ""Official Song"", ""Dear Old Boston"", dedicated to his honor, Mayor Curley. Booklet contains a good fold-out map of downtown. Paper booklet, with contemporary notes on study… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Home Life Publishing Co, 1909. 7.2 x 15.5 cm. Little red book provides names and location of places, directory of streets in Manhattan, Bronx, Richmond, churches, hospitals, asylums, homes, art galleries, Masonic Lodges, public schools, hotels, restaurants, more. Red cloth cover, pencil writing on inside rear cover, fold-out map of Manhattan has many chips, tears in… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Hudson River Night Line, 1929. 11.4 x 19.1 cm. Folding map of New York and east from Georgian Bay, Ont. To Norfolk, VA. Descriptions of motor trips to White Mountains, Finger Lakes, Cherry Valley Route, Green Mountains, Mohawk Trail, etc. Board steamer in New York and enjoy dinner while you sail up Hudson to Albany… Read more about this item

Gothenburg, Sweden: Svenska Amerika Linien, 1930. 8.5 x 15.5 cm. Small guide booklet with fold-out map of Gothenburg (Göteborg). Description of city, points of interest, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, list of English and Swedish words, churches, theatres, etc. Booklet, back cover detached, poor. Fold-out map very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Maps.

New York, NY: Hotel Empire, Broadway at 63rd St, ca. 1939. 52 x 80 cm. Folded promotional map shows Manhattan from 125th st. to the Battery, Panorama of World's Fair at Flushing Meadow Park, Queens ""Building the World of Tomorrow"" with trademark Perisphere and Trylon. Empire Hotel offers 700 fireproof rooms with palatial accommodations and every convenience. … Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Hotel Driscoll, ca. 1917. 8 x 21 cm. Advertising brochure describes key sights in Washington and provides map. Hotel Driscoll American Plan from $4.00. Running water and electric fans in rooms. Sight-seeing cars to Arlington and Virginia suburbs, $1.54, including War Tax. Paper brochure, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Maps.

Chester, VT: The National Survey, ca. 1932. 20 x 23 cm. Fourteen pages of detailed maps of New England and adjacent areas, from Montréal to New York City. Description of sights, garages for cars, hotels. Many ads. Paper booklet, initials in colored pencil on cover, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Maps.

Philadelphia, PA: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1889. 13 x 17 cm. Booklet includes fold-out map of downtown Washington, DC. Describes key sights to see, which horsecar to take, schedule of trip from Boston. Paper booklet, 1 cm. Corner torn from corner of cover, worn, fair. On title page, by date of tour, ""The day I met your father.""… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Boston Evening Transcript, 1923. 9 x 16 cm. Beaches, parks and pleasure resorts; cemeteries, electric car lines, historic sights, steam railway lines. Fold-out map of Business Boston and Suburban Boston. Paper booklet with fold-out map, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Maps.