Author: Valentine, D. T and George Hayward (artist)
Title: Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for the Year 1859 with the Duke's Plan of New Amsterdam (Mannados) in 1661. ( First Edition)
Description: New York : D.T. Valentine, 1859. 8vo. xii, 612 pp. Contemporary red leather with floral gilt stamping. Name: Horatio N. Parker Esq. The Duke's Plan has been removed and restored. It is 24 x 28 inches and suitable for framing. With tinted lithographed title page; engraved portrait frontispiece of Valentine. 2 charts, 34 ( 24 folding) lithographs. Some have tears. Partly tinted lithographed. Wonderful plates of the North Battery waterfront from 1820 and Central park. 4 facsimiles and some wood-engraved Illustr. in the text. Sabin 54369th - With large folding map of Central Park pretty views and building representations etc. - Spine cracked at front eps but well connected; isolated small marginal defects , partly browned. .

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