Author: De Voe, Thomas Farrington [1811-1892]
Title: The Market Book, Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York..,.
Description: New York, Burt Franklin, [1969]. reprint. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 621 pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1862 edition. Series: Burt Franklin Research and Source Works Series, 357.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This volume relates to New York only, no more volumes were ever published; [c.f. NUC pre-1956, 141:685]. Full title reads: "The market book, containing a historical account of the public markets in the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn : with a brief description of every article of human food sold therein, the introduction of cattle in America, and notices of many remarkable specimens : in two volumes, vol. I / by Thomas F. De Voe".

Keywords: American Economic History, New York City, Manhattan, Public Food Markets, United States, , , ,