Item #3674 Farrar’s Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, the Wilds of Northern Maine and the Headwaters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John Rivers, with a New and Correct Map of the Lake Region, Drawn and Printed Expressly for his book. Charles A. J. Farrar.
Farrar’s Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, the Wilds of Northern Maine and the Headwaters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John Rivers, with a New and Correct Map of the Lake Region, Drawn and Printed Expressly for his book.
Farrar’s Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, the Wilds of Northern Maine and the Headwaters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John Rivers, with a New and Correct Map of the Lake Region, Drawn and Printed Expressly for his book.

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Farrar’s Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, the Wilds of Northern Maine and the Headwaters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John Rivers, with a New and Correct Map of the Lake Region, Drawn and Printed Expressly for his book.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1884. 12mo, green pictorial wrappers, railroad ad on verso of upper wrapper and on lower wrapper. Frontis. wood engraving of a moose head, [1-4 ads], 5-222, 16 pp. of “Special Notices”, folding map, 62cm x 50cm, 26 wood-engravings, mostly full-page.

A delightful 1884 travel guide that includes chapters on Greenville, Mt Kineo, The Ascent of Mount Katahdin, Camping Out Advice, Game and Fish Laws, Lists of Hotels, Rail and Steamboat Routes, Table of Fares and more. The fine fold-out map by M. M.Tidd, dated 1884, is entitled Farrar’s Map of Northern Maine: Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, Sebec Lake and the headwaters of the Kennebec, Penobscot and St. John Rivers, shows the abundance of intricately connected waterways, hotels, camps, farms, railroads, and so on.

The most prolific 19th century writer on the Maine woods, Capt. Farrar began writing his guides as a promotion for his Richardson Lake properties and commercial transportation company in 1876. In addition to his Rangeley and Moosehead Lake guide-books, he also wrote a series of camping narratives, including Camp Life in the Wilderness, From Lake to Lake, and Through the Wilds, as well as four north woods adventure stories: Eastward Ho!, Wild Woods Life, Down the West Branch, and Up the North Branch

CONDITION: Near good, head of spine chipped, 4 cm loss at lower spine, tears at edges of upper wrapper, chipped at fore edge and right corner, light damp stains to wrappers, slightly affecting contents; two 2.5” tears into map where it is attached to the book, two small separations along folds.

REFERENCES: Williamson 3274

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