Way, John M, jr, Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, Bradford and Anthony, 1874.
Way's humble book was the first guidebook to Moosehead Lake. This is by far the rarest of the guidebooks listed here and must have been printed in a very limited press run. OCLC's Worldcat lists just 13 copies in libraries - mostly at various Maine colleges and universities.
The book itself is very cute. It is about 3 1/2 inches by 5 inches in a lovely blue cloth binding. The book is slim, with just 66 pages of text and 20 pages of advertisements. The accompanying map (missing from the copy I inspected) was in a pocket in the rear of the book.
It has been said that Way's map was heavily used by Lucius L. Hubbard in the creation of his Map of Moosehead Lake.
This book is extremely rare and the map is absolutely superlatively so.
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