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Hand-Book of the Great Overland Route

Title: A Descriptive Hand-Book of the Great Overland Route between Europe and Australia, China, Japan and India... (wrapper title)
Author: **
Description: 32 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings; folding color map. 9¼x6, original wrappers printed in red & black, engraving on rear wrapper, with map on inside of rear wrapper.Description of the route from Europe via Atlantic steamers to New York, then westward via the Erie Railway and the Pacific Railroads to San Francisco, where the traveler would connect with the iron steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to Japan, China and Australia. Included is a schedule and list of fares; this latter has been amended with manuscript notations pasted over the printed fares.
Heading: (Erie Railway Company)Place Published: New York
Publisher:
Date Published: 1876