121 pp. With 67 hand-colored maps and plans, including smaller maps and insets (17 maps are double-page and 3 are folding), all on 40 mapsheets. 15½x12¾, original dark green cloth, rebacked with black cloth spine, front cover lettered in original gilt.
Atlas of Monmouth County, New Jersey, which borders the Atlantic Ocean up to Sandy Hook Bay. The maps show the railroad lines and stations (including the Freehold & Keyport R.R., NJ Southern R.R., Monmouth Co. Agricultural R.R., and the proposed line for the NY & LB R.R. line), several docks, light house and signal stations, various waterways (including Matawan Creek, Raritan Bay, Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers), the Matawan Institute, plus detail views of the streets, residences, businesses (i.e. canning factories, lumber yards, hotels, etc.), government structures, schools, churches, cemeteries, parks (including Monmouth Park with a race track and a steeple chase course), etc. Double-page maps include: New Jersey; Monmouth County; Plan of Matawan; Oceanport; Eatontown; Portions of Middletown and Ocean Townships; Portions of Shrewsbury and Ocean Townships; 7 separate close-up portions of Long Branch; Wall; and Freehold. Folding maps include: Keyport; Red Bank; and the Town of Freehold.
Condition:
Corners bumped, light soiling; front hinge cracked, a few maps with tears (chiefly to folding maps which each have a piece of cloth tape to lower fold edge on verso), occasional faint foxing, previous owner's pencil signatures on front endpapers; maps clean, else very good overall.