Atlas of Six folding Bicycling Maps for New York State, including the Index, by the League of American Wheelmen in 1893
(League of American Wheelmen)
New York: League of American Wheelmen, 1893. Atlas of Six folding Bicycling Maps for New York State, including the Index, by the League of American Wheelmen in 1893, detailing the roads and highways available to cyclists in that state in the late nineteenth century; The League was founded in 1880; goals were to teach people how to ride and to improve road conditions.The League’s Good Roads Movement resulted in the paving of many roads in the Eastern U.S. and is still the foremost national advocacy group for bicyling in the United States; enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box created by Jodi Musnicki Custom Book Binder of Bridghampton, New York; with a special illustrated pastedown label of the Wheelmen's emblem on the cover; some splitting along folds; maps in very good condition overall. Very Good (Item ID: 11037)
$750.00
