Author: STOKES, (Isaac Newton Phelps).
Title: The iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909. Compiled from original sources. New York, 1915-1928. Reprint.
Description: New York, Martino, 1998. 6 volumes. Large 4to. Cloth. With numerous maps, plans and plates (some in colours; many folding). 'The iconography of Manhattan Island represents the result of a two-fold purpose: to collect, to condense, and to arrange systematically and in just proportion, within the confines of a single work, the facts and incidents which are of the greatest consequence and interests in the history of New York, with special reference to its topographical features and the physical development of the island; and to illustrate this material by the best reproductions obtainable of important and interesting contemporary maps, plans, views, and documents; in other words, to produce a book dealing with the physical rather than with the personal side of the city's history, which shall be at the same time useful and interesting to the student of history, the antiquarian, the collector, and the general public' (Preface). - Most elaborate and comprehensive history of New York City (Howes S 1026).

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