Author: KING, ed. Moses
Title: King's Handbook of New York City. An Outline History and Description of the American Metropolis. With over Eight Hundred Illustrations from Photographs made expressly for this Work. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Moses King, Boston MA,, [1892]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title in red and black, over 800 photographs (many full-page) and a full-page map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial tan cloth gilt, upper board board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and brown, gilt back, brown top, very neatly recased, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy of the best nineteenth-century guide to the city, extensive in scope and comprehensive in detail. A second edition was issued in the following year. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: travel, americana, america, new york, moses king, guide books


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